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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Schisandra chinensis (Schisandraceae)

Common Names
Chinese Magnolia Vine; Schizandra; Wu Wei Zu; Wu Wei Zi; Magnolia Vine; Five-Flavor-Fruit
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
(+)-DEOXYSCHIZANDRIN 0 Fruit 548.1 *
(+)-GOMISIN-K-2 0 Fruit 7.0 *
(-)-GOMISIN-K-1 0 Fruit 63.0 *
(DL)-GAMMA-SCHIZANDRIN 0 Fruit *
6-O-BENZOYLGOMISIN-I 0 Fruit 3.3 *
ALPHA-CHAMIGRENE 0 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ALUMINUM 5 Fruit 174.0 -0.17 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ANGELOYLGOMISIN-H 0 Fruit 65.0 310.0 *
ANGELOYLGOMISIN-O 0 Fruit 10.1 *
ANGELOYLGOMISIN-P 0 Fruit 8.0 *
ANGELOYLGOMISIN-Q 0 Fruit 47.0 *
ANGELOYLISOGOMISIN-O 0 Fruit Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ARGOLIC-ACID 0 Fruit Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ARSENIC 2 Fruit 0.2 -0.31 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 153.0 1022.0 -0.22 *
ASH 0 Fruit 6900.0 46000.0 -0.28 *
BENZOYLGOMISIN 0 Fruit *
BENZOYLGOMISIN-H 0 Fruit 20.0 30.0 *
BENZOYLISOGOMISIN-O 0 Fruit Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
BETA-2-BISABOLENE 0 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antitumor (Lung) 4 *
Antitumor (Mouth) 1 *
Antitumor (Prostate) 2 *
Antitumor (Skin) 2 *
Antitumor (Stomach) 1 *
Antitumor-Promoter 1 *
Antitussive 2 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 200.
Antiulcer 9 *
Antiulcerogenic 1 Rafatullah, S., Tariq, M., Al-Yahya, M.A., Mossa, J.S., and Ageel, A.M. 1989. Evaluation of Turmeric (Curcuma longa) for Gastric and Duodenal Antiulcer Activity in Rats. J. of Ethnopharmacology, 29: 25-34, 1990.
Antivaginitic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antivertigo 1 *
Antiviral 6 *
Antiviral? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anxiolytic 5 *
AP-1-Inhibitor 1 *
Apoptotic 5 *
Artemicide 1 Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Asthma-preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent 1 Martindale's 28th