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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antinitrosaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiophidic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antioxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antioxidant Synergist	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiperiodontitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperoxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipolio	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprostaglandin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiradicular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseborrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	2	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antistaphylococcic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitubercular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (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.