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

Common Names

Purging Croton

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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
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
Antispasmodic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisyncopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaginitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	2	Bonness, M. S., Promising new drugs from plants: poisons that heal, Herbarist, #56, 1990, 59-68
Apoptotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Arrhythmigenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Astringent	1	Merck 11th Edition
Bruchifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Cancer-Preventive	3	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
Choleretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Co-carcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Coagulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Comedolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Convulsant	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Corrosive	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Cosmetic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant	1	Merck 11th Edition