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Common Names
Billy Webb; Cascara Amarga
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LUPEOL | 21 | Bark | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PICRAMNINE? | 0 | Bark | not available | 30000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SWEETINE | 0 | Bark | not available | 30000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SWEETININE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiangiogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiEBV | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiedemic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiflu | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihyperglycemic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antiinflammatory | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antilithic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimalarial | 1 | Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary**, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum*. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986. |
| Antioxalate | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antioxidant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiperoxidant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprostaglandin | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antirheumatic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antiurethrotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiviral | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cytotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FPTase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypotensive | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Pesticide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |