TY - JOUR
T1 - Secondary Metabolites from Basotho Medicinal Plants. II Bulbine capitata
AU - Qhotsokoane-Lusunzi, M. A.
AU - Karuso, Peter
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - The medicinal plant Bulbine capitata is used by the Basotho of southern Africa as a mild purgative and to cure gonorrhea infections. Organic extracts of the powdered root were found to be rich in anthraquinones, which may be responsible for the reported laxative effects. Examination of B. capitata led to the isolation of five known anthraquinones: chrysophanol, knipholone, isoknipholone, 10,7′-bichrysophanol and chrysalodin, and one new anthraquinone glycoside, M-4′-demethylknipholone-2′-O-β-D-glucopyranoside.
AB - The medicinal plant Bulbine capitata is used by the Basotho of southern Africa as a mild purgative and to cure gonorrhea infections. Organic extracts of the powdered root were found to be rich in anthraquinones, which may be responsible for the reported laxative effects. Examination of B. capitata led to the isolation of five known anthraquinones: chrysophanol, knipholone, isoknipholone, 10,7′-bichrysophanol and chrysalodin, and one new anthraquinone glycoside, M-4′-demethylknipholone-2′-O-β-D-glucopyranoside.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0038199753&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1071/CH01126
DO - 10.1071/CH01126
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038199753
VL - 54
SP - 427
EP - 430
JO - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JF - Australian Journal of Chemistry
SN - 0004-9425
IS - 7
ER -