Plant Quillaja saponaria (Rosaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Soapbark

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
CALCIUM-OXALATE	4	Bark	not available	110000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTURONIC-ACID	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCURONIC-ACID	4	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUILLAIC-ACID	2	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SACCHAROSE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONINS	5	Bark	90000.0	100000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Bark	not available	150000.0	0.08	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
Absorbent	1	Martindale's 29th
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiarrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Camphor)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Iodine)	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidote (Morphine)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysenteric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypertensive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antinephritic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antinesidioblastosic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiophidic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antioxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *