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
SCHISANDROL	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHISANDROLIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHISANHENOL	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHISANHENOL	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHISANTHENOL	0	Fruit	not available	66.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHISANTHERIN-A	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHISANTHERIN-B	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHISANTHERIN-D	0	Fruit	not available	13.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHIZANDER-A	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHIZANDRER-A	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHIZANDRER-B	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHIZANDRIN	2	Fruit	65.0	2600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHIZANDRIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHIZANDRIN	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHIZANDRIN-A	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHIZANDRIN-A	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
SCHIZANDRIN-B	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHIZANDRIN-C	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCHIZANDROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
SCHIZANDROL-A	0	Fruit	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
Antimycotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimyocarditic	1	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.
Antinephrolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuralgic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuramidase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineurasthenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antineuropathic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antineurotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
AntiNF-kB	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinitrosic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antinociceptive	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antinyctalopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiobesity	5	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antionychyotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiophidic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiorchitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiosteoarthritic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiosteoporotic	9	Duke, 1992 *