Croton tiglium
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| Purging Croton | |
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| 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) |
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Croton tiglium, known as Purging Croton, is a plant species in the Euphorbiaceae family.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] See also
- Chinese herbology 50 fundamental herbs
[edit] References
- ^ "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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