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
2-METHYLANTHRAQUINONE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA,GAMMA-DIAMINOBUTYRIC-ACID	0	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-D-GLUCOSIDE	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BREIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTEROL	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-GALACTOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-RUTINOSIDE	1	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOARTENOL	7	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-2,4,6-TRIENOIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROBRASSICASTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EPI-GERMANICYL-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMANICOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMANICYL-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMANICYL-BEHENATE	0	Plant	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
Antiulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaricose	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	3	Abid Ali Khan, M.M., Jain, D.C., Bhakuni, R.S., Zaim, M., and Thakur, R.S. 1991. Occurrence of some antiviral sterols in Artemisia annua. Plant Science, 75: 161-165, 1991.
Anxiolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	1	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist	1	Duke, 1992 *
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Cancer-Preventive	3	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	1	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Capillariprotective	1	Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catabolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic	1	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Clastogenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Active	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.