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Plant 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.
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
NORISOBOLDINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
P-CYMENE 16 Plant not available not available not available Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
PHENOLS 0 Plant not available not available not available Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
PROANTHOCYANIDINS 34 Latex Exudate not available 900000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN 11 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-1 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-4 4 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PRODELPHINIDIN 1 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RESIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
SINOACUTINE 1 Leaf not available 1.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SITOSTEROL 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SITOSTEROL-BETA-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Plant not available not available not available 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 not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Plant not available not available not available Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
THALIPORPHINE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN 28 Plant not available not available not available 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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Apifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide 1 Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Bactericide 1 Wealth of India.
Bacteriostatic 1 Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis.
Bacteristat 1 Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker 7 Zhu, M., Phillipson, J. D., Greengrass, P. M., Bowery, N. E., Cai, Y. 1997. Plant Polyphenols: Biologically Active Compounds or Non-Selective Binders to Protein? Phytochemistry, 44(3): 441-447.
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Bruchiphobe 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist 1 Duke, 1992 *
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive 9 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 5 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Capillariprotective 2 Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic? 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardioprotective 2 Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotonic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Cardiovascular 1 Duke, 1992 *
Carminative 1 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.