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

Common Names
Physic Nut; Purging Nut
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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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 *
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Seed 3300.0 5280.0 -0.49 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Seed 5400.0 8640.0 -0.18 *
N-1-TRIACONTANOL 0 Leaf *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 109440.0 199680.0 0.66 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 39900.0 65325.0 0.65 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Seed 4200.0 6720.0 -0.14 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 162000.0 186000.0 -0.43 *
RAFFINOSE 1 Seed *
RHAMNOSE 0 Seed *
STACHYOSE 1 Seed *
STARCH 5 Seed *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 26400.0 87360.0 1.33 *
STIGMAST-5-ENE-3-BETA-7-ALPHA-DIOL 1 Leaf *
STIGMAST-5-ENE-3-BETA-7-BETA-DIOL 1 Leaf *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Leaf *
SUCROSE 14 Seed *
TANNIN 35 Resin, Exudate, Sap 116000.0 187000.0 -0.75 *
TARAXASTEROL 2 Bark *
VITEXIN 18 Leaf *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Nematicide 3 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 *
Ovulant 1 *
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 2 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide 3 *
Poultice 1 Martindale's 29th
Preservative 1 Merck 11th Edition
Propecic 4 *
Psychotropic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Sedative 1 *
Soap 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spermicide 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Suppository 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sweetener 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Thyroid-Peroxidase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Triglycerigenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Ubiquiot 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 1 *