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

Common Names

Lignum Quassia; Nigaki; Shurni

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	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
1-ACETYL-BETA-CARBOLINE	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-CARBOXY-BETA-CARBOLINE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-HYDROXYMETHYL-BETA-CARBOLINE	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-METHYLCANTHIN-2,6-DIONE	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4,8-DIMETHOXY-1-(2-METHOXYETHYL)-BETA-CARBOLINE	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4,8-DIMETHOXY-1-ETHYL-BETA-CARBOLINE	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARBOLIN-1-YL-4,8-DIMETHOXY-BETA-CARBOLIN-1-YL-ETHYL...	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUMIJIANS	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KUSULACTONE	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-BETA-CARBOLINE-1-CARBOXYLATE	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYLNIGAKINONE	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEGAKILACTONE-B	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOQUASSIN	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIGAKIHEMIACETAL-A	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIGAKIHEMIACETAL-C	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIGAKILACTONE-A	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIGAKILACTONE-C	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIGAKILACTONE-D	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIGAKILACTONE-E	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIGAKILACTONE-F	Wood	not available	not available	not available	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
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amebicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiandrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrinolytic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antioxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apertif	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	1	Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
FLavor	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	1	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	Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.
Lubricant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Nematicide	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Pesticide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Soap	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.