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

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.
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
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	9.0	61.0	-0.03	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CHAMIGRENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CHAMIGRENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CHAMIGRENOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	864.0	5760.0	0.44	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	not available	709000.0	-0.40	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CARBOXYLIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-88.
CHAMIGRENAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CHROMIUM	24	Fruit	0.3	1.8	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
CITRAL	53	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CITRIC-ACID	23	Fruit	5000.0	33333.0	-0.11	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Fruit	2.0	10.4	0.72	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Fruit	5.0	11.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
D-ALPHA-YLANGENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
DEANGELOYLGOMISIN-B	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEOXYGOMISIN-A	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEOXYGOMOSIN-A	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	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	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Hepatoprotective	8	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	1	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	1	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic	9	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic	5	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	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	7	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	7	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	7	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	1	Martindale's 28th
Insulinogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Irritant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	3	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.