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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
(+)-CATECHIN 30 Plant *
(+)-GALLOCATECHIN 7 Plant *
(-)-EPICATECHIN 38 Plant *
(-)-EPIGALLOCATECHIN 21 Plant *
1,3,5-TRIMETHOXYBENZENE 1 Latex Exudate *
2,4,6-TRIMETHOXYPHENOL 1 Latex Exudate *
3',4-O-DIMETHYLCEDRUSIN 0 Latex Exudate *
3,4-DIMETHOXYBENZENYL-ALCOHOL 0 Latex Exudate *
3,4-DIMETHOXYPHENOL 0 Plant *
4-HYDROXYPHENETHYL-ALCOHOL 0 Latex Exudate *
4-HYDROXYPHENETHYL-ALCOHOL-ACETATE 0 Latex Exudate *
4-O-DIMETHYLCEDRUSIN 1 Latex Exudate *
ALKALOIDS 0 Plant Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
ALPHA-CALACORENE 0 Plant Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
ALPHA-COPAENE 0 Plant Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Plant Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Plant Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Plant Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Plant Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
BETA-PINENE 13 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
Antiotitic 1 *
Antioxidant 16 *
Antiperiodontal 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiperoxidant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiplaque 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipneumonic 1 *
Antipolio 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant 2 *
Antiprostaglandin 3 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 1 *
Antipyretic 3 *
Antiradicular 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antirenitic 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.
Antiretinopathic 1 *
Antiretroviral 1 *
Antirheumatalgic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antisalmonella 2 *
Antisarcomic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.