May help with

• Febrifuge
• anti malaria activity
• Insecticide
• Parasiticide
• Fevers

Source : http://www.wikiphyto.org/wiki/Quassia_de_Surinam

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plant name

Surinamese quassia

International Latin denomination

Quassia amara L.

botanical family

Simarubaceae

Description and habitat

• Tree 12 to 15 m tall, with a thick, straight trunk, light gray bark, ash-like in appearance, spreading branches with alternate leaves, oddly-pinnately compound, oval-oblong leaflets 4 to 8 cm long
• Cymes of small, yellowish-green flowers, male or hermaphroditic, the fruit is a blackish drupe
• In the West Indies, Martinique and Guadeloupe, Jamaica

History and tradition

• Used in folk medicine to treat tumors and malaria

Parts used

• Wood, very bitter yellowish wood chips

Dosage forms available

• Wood tincture

Usual dosages

Composition

Main components of the plant

• Quassinoids , bruceantin derivatives
• Terpene derivatives: quassine (and neocassine )

Main components of buds or young shoots

Main components of essential oil

Properties

Plant properties

• Febrifuge, bitter tonic, antimalarial activity
• Anti-cancer, antitumor activity against leukemia, skin and colon tumors
• Antiulcer, laxative, atrigent (tonic)
• Insecticide
• Anthelmintic, parasiticide (protozoocide)
• Febrifuge

Bud properties

Properties of essential oil

Directions

Indications of the whole plant (phytotherapy)

• Fevers
• Malaria
• Leukemia, skin and colon tumors (?)

Indications of the bud (gemmotherapy)

Specific indications of essential oil (aromatherapy)

Known or suspected mode of action

Usual formulations

Regulations

Possible side effects and precautions for use

• Quassine toxicity
  • Nevertheless the quassia extract is recognized as GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe (en)) under the fema number 2971

Bibliographic references

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