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Common Names
Bitterwood; Quassia
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18-HYDROXYQUASSIN | 0 | Wood | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALKALOIDS | 0 | Wood | not available | 2500.0 | 0.22 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTENONE | 0 | Wood | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Wood | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM-TARTRATE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EO | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GALLIC-ACID | 62 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOQUASSIN | 0 | Wood | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MALIC-ACID | 15 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NEOQUASSIN | 0 | Wood | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| POTASSIUM-ACETATE | 1 | Wood | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| QUASSIN | 5 | Wood | 1000.0 | 2000.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| QUASSINOL | 0 | Wood | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| QUASSOL | 0 | Wood | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| ACE-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Amebicide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Analgesic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Androgenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Angiogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anorexic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antiadenomic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Antiadenovirus | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194. |
| Antiallergenic | 1 | Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991. |
| Antianaphylactic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antiandrogenic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antiangiogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiasthmatic | 1 | Watt, J.M., and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. 1962. |
| Antiatherosclerotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antibacterial | 3 | Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155. |
| Antibronchitic | 1 | Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991. |
| Anticancer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticancer (Breast) | 1 | 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticancer (Lung) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |