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
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	87960.0	162240.0	0.47	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed	3300.0	5280.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	5400.0	8640.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
N-1-TRIACONTANOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	109440.0	199680.0	0.66	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	39900.0	65325.0	0.65	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Seed	4200.0	6720.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	162000.0	186000.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
RAFFINOSE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STACHYOSE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	26400.0	87360.0	1.33	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMAST-5-ENE-3-BETA-7-ALPHA-DIOL	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMAST-5-ENE-3-BETA-7-BETA-DIOL	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Resin, Exudate, Sap	116000.0	187000.0	-0.75	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXASTEROL	2	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN	18	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.