Bowiea volubilis (Climbing Onion)

Traditional uses

Africa

• Cardiotonic
• Fatality

Africa(Xosa)

• Dropsy
• Sterility

Africa(Fingu)

• Purgative

Elsewhere

• Poison

Chemicals

Bulb

• BOVOCRYPTOSIDE — 6
• BOVOCYANOTOXIN
• BOVOPURPUROSIDE — 14
• BOVOSIDES
• BOVOSIDE-A — 100
• GLUCOBOVOSIDE-A — 220
• HELLEBRIGENIN
• KILIMANDSCHAROGENIN-A
• KILIMANDSCHAROTOXIN
• NABOGENIN
• SCILLIGLAUCOSIDIN
• BOVOEOLOTOXIN
• BOVOCHRYSOID — 50
• BOVORUBOSIDE — 20
• BUFODIANOLIDE
• KILIMANDSCHAROGENIN-B
• SINISTRIN — 100000
• BOVOXANTHOTOXIN — 60
• BOVOSIDE-B — 2

Plant

• BOVOGENINS
• BOVOSIDE-C
• BOVOERYTHROTOXIN

Activities

1. Anticarcinomic — 1 compounds; toxic activity; SCILLIGLAUCOSIDIN
2. Cardiac — 1 compounds; SCILLIGLAUCOSIDIN

Toxic compounds

• SCILLIGLAUCOSIDIN — Anticarcinomic; Bulb; 2 ppb