Plant Picrasma excelsa (Simaroubaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Bitterwood, Jamaican Quassia

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Sort descending	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ALKALOIDS	0	Wood	not available	700.0	-0.74	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTERONE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUM	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUASSIN	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHOXY-1-VINYL-BETA-CARBOLINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUASSIN	5	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity Sort descending	Chemical Count	Reference
Amebicide	1 (View Chemicals list for Amebicide)	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	1 (View Chemicals list for Analgesic)	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Androgenic	1 (View Chemicals list for Androgenic)	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1 (View Chemicals list for Angiogenic)	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1 (View Chemicals list for Anorexic)	Martindale's 28th
Antiadenomic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiadenomic)	Merck 11th Edition
Antialcoholic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antialcoholic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran	1 (View Chemicals list for Antialzheimeran)	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiandrogenic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiandrogenic)	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianorectic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antianorectic)	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiatheromic	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiatheromic)	Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antibackache	1 (View Chemicals list for Antibackache)	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	2 (View Chemicals list for Antibacterial)	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Antiberiberi	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiberiberi)	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1 (View Chemicals list for Anticancer (Breast))	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1 (View Chemicals list for Anticancer (Cervix))	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1 (View Chemicals list for Anticancer (Lung))	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	1 (View Chemicals list for Anticanker)	Duke, 1992 *
Anticardiospasmic	1 (View Chemicals list for Anticardiospasmic)	Duke, 1992 *
Anticataract	1 (View Chemicals list for Anticataract)	Duke, 1992 *