Comments on: Kalachuchi

by: Chiralyn bullos

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:20:02 +0000

we just want to ask what are the uses of Kalachuchi and if it can burns fats from our body

by: Fats

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:59:21 +0000

Yes, hopefully, the kids have access to your research in their libraries (here in the Philippines). Thanks for sharing your work/reference. I get numerous “last minute” requests for answers to questions that students are asked in their classes, which is good that the Internet enables - to some point - contacts that are previously more difficult if not impossible, however, not very good in the way that the spirit of research and inquiry seem to have been dumbed down - and this in the so-called “Information Age”!

by: otto halpern

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:16:50 +0000

I did a doctoral thesis on the structure of Plumierid in the laboratory of Prof. Hans Schmid at the University of Z�rich in 1954-6 and published it in the Helvetica Chimica Acta. Is this any help?

by: Fats

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:08:53 +0000

There is a research paper on kalachuchi, and mention of “Wehmer records that the bark contains a bitter glucoside, plumierid, which was isolated by Boorsma [Medel, -Strand Plant. 13 (1894) 11]. The paper is at http://www.bpi.da.gov.ph/Publications/mp/html/k/kalachuche.htm -

As for the components of plumierid, you wlll need to check your library for that, at least you have a source (i.e. Boorsma), and chemically, you should know that a glucoside is a glycoside derived from glucose..

And if you search the Internet, it’s C21H26O12.

Let me know how your thesis turns out. Where are studying, by the way?

by: Milarose

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:00:56 +0000

accordingly, it contains bitter glucoside plumierid(2%). What are the components of this stuff? Please do answer…..on monday’s our defense for our research.

by: Fats

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:47:16 +0000

You can refer to StuartXchange’s website on Philippine medicinal herbs - http://www.stuartxchange.org/Kalachuchi.html - and from there you can see that kalachuchi has plenty of medicinal uses. According to the website, ” Bark contains a bitter glucoside, plumierid (2%). Latex contains resins, caoutchouc and calcium salts of plumieric acid: cerotinic acid and lupeol. Leaves contain a volatile oil” and that it’s pharmacological uses are: ” Antipyretic, diuretic, emmenagogue, febrifuge, purgative, rubefacient”

Good luck with your research! I hope that your work can help more people benefit from our local plants.

by: charmaine

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:58:13 +0000

what is the medicinal use of kalachuchi? can i use this to make a cream that can cure certain skin aiiments?.. because i will use the said plant in our research study.

by: Fats

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:42:32 +0000

Hi Martin, if you reside in Quezon City, kalachuchi grows almost everywhere (i.e. public parks). It’s a lovely tree - it’s not the blooming season now though, but I did see a few blooming in Fort Santiago in Manila. I don’t think the kalachuchi can make it as an indoor plant, though - it needs plenty of sunshine and space. As for cutting, if you find a tree you can ask the owner or caretaker to let you have a cutting to propagate. That’s what we did when we saw this really lovely kalachuchi at the Veterans Memorial Hospital, and the lady gardeners were so excited to give us a cutting and even advise us on how to grow it.

by: Martin

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:29:25 +0000

Is the Kalachuchi able to be grown indoors as a house plant?
Where could I grt a cutting or plant to grow?

I first saw this plant in Cebu back in 1994 and have been looking for it’s fragrance
since then.