Croton TIGLIUM L.
| Synonym : | Croton acutus Thunb. Croton arboreus Shecut Halecus verus Raf. Tiglium officinale Klotzsch |
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| Bangla Name : | Jaipal, Jaiphal, Jamalgota. |
| English Name : | Purging Croton, Croton Oil Plant. |
| Family : | Euphorbiaceae |
| Disease : | Purgative, hydragogue, cathartic, vesicant, inflammation, pustular eruption, asthma and diaphoretic. |
| Description : | A small evergreen tree. Leaves 5-10 cm long, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, minutely and remotely repand-toothed. Flowers small, on terminal glabrous racemes at the end of branchlets. Capsules 17-25 mm long, oblong and obtusely 3- lobed. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong and Sal forests. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Seed oil contains inflammatory and carcinogenic compounds, phorbol-12, 13-diesters, a series of toxic, irritating co-carcinogenic di-esters of tigliane type of diterpene ployol, phorbol with simple acids such as acetic methylbutyric, tiglic and myristic a |
| Uses : | Seeds, leaves, bark and root, all possesses drastic purgative properties. Oil is powerful hydragogue, cathartic and externally a vesicant, producing irritation, inflammation, and pustular eruption. It is given only when a drastic and violent purgative is |
| Habit : | Tree |