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
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
FLavor	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic	1	Martindale's 30th
Hypoglycemic	1	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	1	McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	1	Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.
Insulin-Sparing	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Mycobactericide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.