Soap bark

Saponin, another glucoside, found in Soap Bark, Senega, Saponaria and other drugs also takes a red color with strong H2SO4. 

Toxic component of the Soap Bark tree (Quil-laja saponaria). Powerful irritant, local anaesthetic and muscular poison, vomiting, diarrhoea and gastroenteritis if taken in large doses internally, headache, vertigo, vomiting, hot skin, rapid feeble pulse, progressive muscular weakness and finally coma and death. 

Quillaja. Soap bark quillay bark Panama bark ... 

Kokoona zeylanica Thwaites kokum soap bark powdered and snuff made into a paste with water and used as a toilet soap headache to improve the complexion of the skin, leech repellent 52... 

Synonyms soap bark quillaybark panama bark cmNABARK murillobark Quinine... 

Soap bark powder (Quillaja saponaria) and its derivatives containing sapxjnins... 

Constit. of desacylsaponins from the bark of Quillaja saponaria (soap-bark tree). The bark (as saponin crude drug) is used as a detergent, dentrifrice and expectorant. Saponin mixt. exhibits strong adjurant activity and plasma cholesterol lowering effect. 

This is the inner dried bark of Quillaja saponaria, which grows in Peru and Chile. It contains quillaic acid, quillajasa-ponin, sucrose, and tannin. Soap bark is used to manufacture saponin, and to produce foams in various products. It is also approved as a natural flavor which can be used in foods. 

Saponins have additionally been reported to exhibit adjuvant-active properties. An open cage-like immunostimulating complex of cholesterol, lipid, immunogen, and saponins from bark of Quillaja saponaria MOL. (soap bark tree) has found successful application as an active adjuvant for vaccinatiMi [16]. 

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