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Plant Croton eluteria (Euphorbiaceae)

Common Names
Cascarilla
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
DIPENTENE 7 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Bark 15000.0 30000.0 1.66 Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL 76 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EUPAROPHENOL 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINEOL 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LIGNIN 13 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-THYMOL 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE 22 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE 16 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PECTIC-ACID 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RESIN 0 Bark not available 150000.0 1.56 Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN 28 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antigliomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antihomocystinuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihypertensive 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antikeratotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilactobacillic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilipolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilisteria 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimelanomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimitotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimutagenic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimyoatrophic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antinephritic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antinitrosaminic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antinitrosating 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antinociceptive 1 Rao, V.S.N., Menezes, A.M.S., Viana, G.S.B. 1990. Effect of myrcene on nociception in mice. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 877-878, 1990.