Croton tiglium

Croton tiglium
Purging Croton
Croton tiglium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Crotonoideae
Tribe: Crotoneae
Genus: Croton
Species: C. tiglium
Binomial name
Croton tiglium
L.[1] (1753)

Croton tiglium, known as Purging Croton, is a plant species in the Euphorbiaceae family.

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Medicinal uses

It is one of the 50 fundamental herbs of used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it has the name bā dòu (Chinese: 巴豆).

Major known ingredients are: glyceryl crotonate, crotonic acid, crotonic resin, and the tumor-promoting phorbol esters phorbol formate, phorbol butyrate, and phorbol crotonate.

This is also called JamaalGota in Hindi and Urdu.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Croton tiglium information from NPGS/GRIN". http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?12426. Retrieved 2008-02-19. 

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