Croton tiglium
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Croton tiglium, known as Purging Croton, is a plant species in the Euphorbiaceae family. C. tiglium is also called Jamaal Gota in Hindi and Urdu.
Traditional uses
C. tiglium is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it has the name bā dòu (Chinese: 巴豆). C. tiglium is known as Japaala/ජාපාල or "Jayapala" in Sinhala and used in Sinhala traditional medical system of Sri Lanka.and in sanskrit also . Seeds have a purgative effect.[3][unreliable medical source?] The plant is poisonous with the bark used as an arrow poison and the seeds used to poison fish.[4]
Chemical constituents
Major known chemical constituents are crotonoleic acid,[3] glyceryl crotonate, crotonic acid[citation needed], crotonic resin, and various carcinogenic phorbol derivatives.
References
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- ↑ Croton tiglium, theplantlist.org
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- ↑ Croton tiglium Purdue University
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- Croton (plant)
- Flora of China
- Flora of Eastern Asia
- Flora of the Indian Subcontinent
- Flora of Indo-China
- Flora of Malesia
- Plants used in traditional Chinese medicine
- Plants described in 1753
- Poisonous plants
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