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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 * |