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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
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit 9.0 61.0 -0.03 *
BETA-CHAMIGRENE 0 Essential Oil *
BETA-CHAMIGRENE 0 Fruit *
BETA-CHAMIGRENOL 0 Essential Oil Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit *
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 864.0 5760.0 0.44 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 709000.0 -0.40 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CARBOXYLIC-ACID 0 Fruit Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-88.
CHAMIGRENAL 0 Fruit Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CHROMIUM 24 Fruit 0.3 1.8 -0.25 *
CITRAL 53 Essential Oil Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CITRIC-ACID 23 Fruit 5000.0 33333.0 -0.11 *
CITRIC-ACID 23 Plant *
COBALT 2 Fruit 2.0 10.4 0.72 *
COPPER 12 Fruit 5.0 11.0 -0.14 *
D-ALPHA-YLANGENE 0 Fruit Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
DEANGELOYLGOMISIN-B 0 Fruit *
DEOXYGOMISIN-A 0 Fruit *
DEOXYGOMOSIN-A 1 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DEOXYSCHIZANDRIN 0 Fruit 10.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Chemopreventive 3 *
Choleretic 1 *
Circulotonic 1 *
CNS-Depressant 1 Facciola, S. 1998. Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications, Vista CA. 713 pp.
Cold-preventive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagenic 2 *
Colorant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Contraceptive 1 Martindale's 28th
Copper-Antagonist 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Cosmetic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytotoxic 1 *
Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Detoxicant 1 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 5 *