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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antipurpuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiradicular	2	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antirheumatic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antispasmodic	3	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antistaphylococcic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antistomatitic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antisunburn	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antithiamin	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithyroid	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitrypanosomic	1	Planta Medica, 57: A44, 1991.
Antitumor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (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.
Antitumor (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	2	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antiulcer	3	Duke, 1992 *