Plant Frangula purshiana (Rhamnaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cascara Sagrada; Cascara Buckthorn

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
BICASCAROSIDE-AD	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BICASCAROSIDE-BB	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BICASCAROSIDE-BC	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BICASCAROSIDE-BD	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BICASCAROSIDE-CC	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BICASCAROSIDE-CD	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BICASCAROSIDE-DD	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Bark	4100.0	14800.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Bark	224093.0	809000.0	0.34	Duke, 1992 *
CASANTHRANOL	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASCARIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASCAROSIDE-A	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASCAROSIDE-B	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASCAROSIDE-C	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASCAROSIDE-D	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASCAROSIDE-E	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASCAROSIDE-F	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASCAROSIDES	0	Bark	40000.0	65000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASSIAMIN-C	0	Bark	not available	120.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Bark	0.2	0.6	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antimigraine	4	Martindale's 29th
Antimitral-valve-prolapse	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMRSA	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimyalgic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimyocarditic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineoplastic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinephritic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antinephrolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuralgic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuramidase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineurasthenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuropathic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antineurotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
AntiNF-kB	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinitrosaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinitrosic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antinyctalopic	1	Duke, 1992 *