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. (1753)
Synonyms
Croton acutus Thunb. Croton arboreus Shecut Croton birmanicus Müll.Arg. Croton camaza Perr. Croton himalaicus D.G.Long Croton jamalgota Buch.-Ham. Croton muricatus Blanco [Illegitimate] Croton officinalis (Klotzsch) Alston [Illegitimate] Croton pavana Buch.-Ham. Croton tiglium var. tiglium Halecus verus Raf. Kurkas tiglium (L.) Raf. Oxydectes birmanica (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze Oxydectes blancoana Kuntze Oxydectes pavana (Buch.-Ham.) Kuntze Oxydectes tiglium (L.) Kuntze Tiglium officinale Klotzsch

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.

C. tiglium is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it has the name bā dòu (Chinese: ). 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. The plant is poisonous with the bark used as an arrow poison and the seeds used to poison fish.

Major known chemical constituents are crotonoleic acid,glyceryl crotonate, crotonic acid, crotonic resin, and various carcinogenic phorbol derivatives.

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