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The family Guttiferae belongs to the superorder Theiflorae, order Theales and according to Dahlgren's system of classification, it is equivalent to Hypericaceae (=Clusiaceae) [1]. This family consists of 49 genera encompassing over 1000 species of wide distribution in the tropics as shrubs and trees [2]. Plants of the genus Clusia have been used in folk medicine for the treatment of different kind of illness such as: febrifuge, anti rheumatic, purgative, for stomach problems and, in Brazil, they are very commonly used to heal wounds [3]. The key of any study of material from natural sources is the availability of suitable separation methods for the isolation of pure products [4–6]. Tentatives for separations using chomatography on solid support phases were not very efficients in the fractionation of Clusia criuva Cambess methanolic/ethyl acetate extracts. However, the use of countercurrent chromatography, an all liquid …