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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Picrasma quassioides (Simaroubaceae)

Common Names
Lignum Quassia, Nigaki, Shurni
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
1-ACETYL-BETA-CARBOLINE 0 Root *
1-CARBOXY-BETA-CARBOLINE 0 Plant *
1-HYDROXYMETHYL-BETA-CARBOLINE 0 Stem *
3-METHYLCANTHIN-2,6-DIONE 0 Root *
4,8-DIMETHOXY-1-(2-METHOXYETHYL)-BETA-CARBOLINE 0 Root *
4,8-DIMETHOXY-1-ETHYL-BETA-CARBOLINE 0 Root *
BETA-CARBOLIN-1-YL-4,8-DIMETHOXY-BETA-CARBOLIN-1-YL-ETHYL... 0 Plant *
KUMIJIANS 0 Plant *
KUSULACTONE 0 Plant *
METHYL-BETA-CARBOLINE-1-CARBOXYLATE 0 Stem *
METHYLNIGAKINONE 0 Stem *
NEGAKILACTONE-B 0 Wood *
NEOQUASSIN 0 Wood *
NIGAKIHEMIACETAL-A 0 Wood *
NIGAKIHEMIACETAL-C 0 Wood *
NIGAKILACTONE-A 0 Wood *
NIGAKILACTONE-C 0 Wood *
NIGAKILACTONE-D 0 Wood *
NIGAKILACTONE-E 0 Wood *
NIGAKILACTONE-F 0 Wood *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Amebicide 1 (View) *
Antialopecic 1 (View) *
Antiandrogenic 1 (View) *
Antifibrinolytic 1 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antioxidant 1 (View) *
Apertif 1 (View) *
Emetic 1 (View) Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
FLavor 1 (View) Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Hemolytic 1 (View) Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic 1 (View) Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Insecticide 1 (View) Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.
Lubricant 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Nematicide 1 (View) Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Pesticide 2 (View) *
Propecic 1 (View) *
Soap 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.