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Common Names
Purging Croton
How this plant is used
Medicinal
Select a Results View:
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHORBOL | 5 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHORBOL-12-O-2-METHYLBUTYRATE-13-O-DECANOATE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHORBOL-12-O-2-METHYLBUTYRATE-13-O-DODECANOATE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHORBOL-12-O-2-METHYLBUTYRATE-13-O-OCTENOATE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHORBOL-12-O-ACETATE-13-O-DODECANOATE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHORBOL-12-O-BUTYRATE-13-O-DODECANOATE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHORBOL-12-O-DECANOATE-13-O-ACETATE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHORBOL-12-O-DODECANOATE-13-O-ACETATE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHORBOL-12-O-HEXADECANOATE-13-O-ACETATE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHORBOL-12-O-TETRADECANOATE-13-O-ACETATE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHORBOL-12-O-TIGLATE-13-O-BUTYRATE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHORBOL-12-O-TIGLATE-13-O-DODECANOATE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHORBOL-12-O-TIGLATE-13-O-OCTENOATE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHORBOL-12-TIGLATE-13-DECANOATE | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Seed | not available | 200000.0 | -0.30 | Duke, 1992 * |
| RAFFINASE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| RESIN | 0 | Seed | 10000.0 | 34000.0 | -1.09 | Duke, 1992 * |
| RICIN | 12 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Seed | 900.0 | 1500.0 | -0.53 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TIGLIC-ACID | 1 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| COX-1-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| COX-2-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cytotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Dermatitigenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Emollient | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Expectorant | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| FLavor | 5 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fungicide | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Fungistat | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Fungitoxic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Hemolytic | 1 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| Hepatoprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypercholesterolemic | 3 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| Hyperglycemic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Hypocholesterolemic | 3 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| Hypotensive | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Immunomodulator | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Immunostimulant | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Immunosuppressant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Insectifuge | 2 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |