Plant Croton tiglium (Euphorbiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Purging Croton

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
ACETIC-ACID	16	Seed	1800.0	3000.0	-0.93	Duke, 1992 *
AMYLASE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	4500.0	7500.0	0.08	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	40000.0	60000.0	0.36	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYRIC-ACID	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CROTIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CROTOFOLIN-A	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CROTONOSIDE	0	Seed	10000.0	38000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	300000.0	500000.0	1.24	Duke, 1992 *
FORMIC-ACID	13	Seed	2400.0	4000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCEROL	8	Seed	21600.0	36000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
INGENOL-3,20-DIBENZOATE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INVERTIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOGUANORIBOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID	7	Seed	150.0	250.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	57000.0	95000.0	-0.10	Duke, 1992 *
LIPASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	22500.0	37500.0	0.19	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	111000.0	185000.0	0.54	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	2700.0	4500.0	-0.61	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
Antifibrinolytic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihysteric	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiinflammatory	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinsomniac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiketotic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antileukemic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Antileukotriene-D4	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMeniere's	1	Martindale's 29th
Antimenorrhagic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiMS	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antineuralgic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiotitic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antioxidant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antisalmonella	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	1	Duke, 1992 *