Croton CAUDATUS Geisel.
| Synonym : | Croton drupaceus Roxb. Croton racemosus Burm.f. Oxydectes caudata (Geiseler) Kuntze Oxydectes denticulata Kuntze |
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| Bangla Name : | Sabarjala, Nanbhantur, Nanbhantui. |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Euphorbiaceae |
| Disease : | Sprains, liver diseases and malaria. |
| Description : | A large scandent shrub. Leaves, 5-7.5 cm long, oval, ovate to oblong-ovate, crenate-serrate, with 2 stipitate gland at base. Flowers small, dull yellowish-green, in a rather long stellate-pubescent raceme at the end of branchlets. Capsules large, woody, obscurely 3 cornered. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Sylhet, on the hill slopes and scrub forests. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Stem bark contains dotriacotanol, ?-amyrin and ?-sitosterol, diterpenes, teucridin (major), crotocaudin (minor) and iso-crotocaudin and a number of triterpenes (Ghani, 2003). Taraxerone, taraxerol and its acetate also isolated from the plant (Rastogi & Me |
| Uses : | The leaves are applied as a poultice to sprains. Young leaf buds along with the leaves of Caesalpinia sappan are used for liver diseases. Decoction of the root is used against malaria. EtOH(50%) extract of aerial parts is hypotensive, of fruit, hypoten |
| Habit : | Shrub |