Plant Quassia amara (Simaroubaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Bitterwood; Quassia

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
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 *

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List of plant activities.
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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 *