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