Plant Jatropha curcas (Euphorbiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Physic Nut; Purging Nut

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
7-KETO-BETA-SITOSTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	1800.0	2880.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	not available	45000.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	4	Seed	not available	50000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	not available	335000.0	-0.75	Duke, 1992 *
CURCIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CURCUSONES	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DULCITOL	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	300000.0	480000.0	1.13	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Seed	not available	155000.0	0.16	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVITEXIN	4	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
Antifeedant	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility	3	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	3	Merck 11th Edition
Antihiccup	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihistaminic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
AntiHIV	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antiketotic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Antileukemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene-D4	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimenorrhagic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiMS	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.