Plant Euphorbia lathyris (Euphorbiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Caper Spurge; Mole Plant

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
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	150000.0	-0.75	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-BETA-D-GLUCURONIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXEROL	2	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXERONE	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WAX	0	Leaf	not available	2000.0	-0.90	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Mutagenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Natriuretic	2	Duke, 1992 *
NEP-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	2	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
P450-Inducer	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	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	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	6	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Preservative	1	Merck 11th Edition