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

Plant Quassia amara (Simaroubaceae)

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