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Common Names
Purging Croton
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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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 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Irritant | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Keratitigenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Lubricant | 3 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Metastatic | 1 | Science News, 146: 421. |
| Mucolytic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Myorelaxant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Nematicide | 3 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Nematistat | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Osteolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Percutaneostimulant | 1 | Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990. |
| Perfumery | 5 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Pesticide | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Preservative | 1 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Proinflammatory | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Propecic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Protisticide | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Purgative | 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. |
| Pyrogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Ribosome-Inactivator | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Sedative | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |