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

Common Names

Poinsettia

How this plant is used

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
GERMANICYL-TETRACOSANOATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-0-GALACTOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-0-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-O-RUTINOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-RHAMNOSIDE	2	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-RHAMNOSYL-GALACTOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-RHAMNOSYL-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-ACETYLDIAMINOBUTYRIC-ACID	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAEICOSANOL	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PELARGONIDIN-3-GALACTOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PELARGONIDIN-3-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PELARGONIDIN-3-RUTINOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOTARAXASTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PULCHEROL	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3'-GLUCOSIDE	2	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-0-GALACTOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-RHAMNOSIDE	1	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-RHAMNOSYL-GALACTOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-RHAMNOSYL-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticataract	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlastogen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticomplementary	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
AntiCVI	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidementia	1	Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
Antidepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidermatitic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Antidiabetic	1	Jin, G-Z., Yamagata, Y., and Tomita, K.-i. 1989. Structure of Rutin Pentamethanol. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(2): 297-300, 1990.
Antiedemic	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antielastase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antierythemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifeedant	3	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.