Plant Rauvolfia tetraphylla (Apocynaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Four-Leaf Devilpepper; Pinque-Pinque

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
AJMALICINE	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AJMALINE	16	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Leaf	4000.0	18000.0	0.60	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Root	600.0	2000.0	-0.82	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Stem	1000.0	5000.0	0.43	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-YOBIMBINE	0	Leaf	not available	5000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-YOBIMBINE	0	Root Bark	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-YOBIMBINE	0	Stem Bark	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALSTONINE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARICINE	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-YOHIMBINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CANEMBRINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARPAGINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHALCHUPINE-A	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHALCHUPINE-B	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CORYNANTHINE	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-YOHIMBINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DESERPIDINE	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EPSILON-YOHIMBINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISORAUNESCINE	0	Plant	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
(-)-Chronotropic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
Adrenergic-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Adrenolytic	2	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Allergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amebicide	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Anesthetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadrenergic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiamebic	1	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antiandrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiuretic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antidyskinetic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antifrigidity	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypertensive	5	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertonic	1	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Antileukemic	1	Duke, 1992 *