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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Croton lechleri (Euphorbiaceae)

Common Names
Sangre de Drago; Sangre de Grado; Sangre de Dragon; Dragons Blood
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
NORISOBOLDINE 0 Plant Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
P-CYMENE 16 Plant Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
PHENOLS 0 Plant Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
PROANTHOCYANIDINS 34 Latex Exudate 900000.0 *
PROCYANIDIN 11 Latex Exudate *
PROCYANIDIN-B-1 1 Plant *
PROCYANIDIN-B-4 4 Plant *
PRODELPHINIDIN 1 Latex Exudate *
RESIN 0 Plant Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
SINOACUTINE 1 Leaf 1.0 *
SITOSTEROL 0 Latex Exudate *
SITOSTEROL-BETA-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Latex Exudate *
TANNIN 35 Plant Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
TASPINE 12 Latex Exudate 13000.0 204000.0 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Plant Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
THALIPORPHINE 0 Leaf *
VANILLIN 28 Plant Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antilactobacillic 1 *
Antileukemic 4 *
Antileukotriene 1 *
Antilipolytic 1 *
Antilipoperoxidant 1 *
Antilisteria 1 *
Antilithic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic 1 *
Antimelanomic 1 *
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 11 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Antimycotic 1 *
Antimyoatrophic 1 *
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.
Antineuromuscular 1 *
Antinitrosaminic 2 *
Antinitrosating 1 *
Antinociceptive 3 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.
Antiobesity 1 *
Antiophidic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.