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Plant Euphorbia tirucalli (Euphorbiaceae)

Common Names
Aveloz
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
12-O-(2Z)(4E)-OCTADIENOYL-4-DEOXYPHORBOL-13-ACETATE 1 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
3,3'-DI-O-METHYL-ELLAGIC-ACID 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAOUTCHOUC 0 Latex Exudate 28000.0 38000.0 -0.39 Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID 23 Plant not available 74000.0 2.00 Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EUPHOL 1 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EUPHORONE 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HENTRIACONTANE 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HENTRIACONTANOL 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOEUPHORAL 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAMEPFEROL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID 15 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RESIN 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SAPOGENIN-ACETATES 0 Plant not available 1000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SUCCINIC-ACID 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TARAXASTEROL 2 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TARAXERIN 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TIRUCALLOL 0 Latex Exudate not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Detoxicant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Dye 1 Merck 11th Edition
Estrogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
FLavor 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemopoietic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostatic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hepatoprotective 2 Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 224.
Hyperglycemic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hypocholesterolemic 1 Martindale's 30th
Hypoglycemic 1 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Irritant 2 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Juvabional 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.