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Botanical Name |
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Euphorbia nerifolia L. |
English
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Dog's Tongue |
Synonym(s) |
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Euphorbia lingularia Roxb. |
Family |
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Euphorbiaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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It is a small tree or shrub with large branches, fleshy glabrous and about 1.8 to 4.0 m high. Branches are jointed, cylindric or obscurely 5 angled with the pairs of stipular spines on tubercles or swelling of the branches. Leaves are deciduous, 10.0 to 20.0 cm long, fleshy, obovate-oblong or obovate or linear and rounded at the apex. Involucres are yellowish, the lateral ones of the cymes thickly pedicelled and hemispheric. The fruit is compressed and glabrous capsule. Seeds are smooth. |
| Herb Effects |
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The plant is bitter, pungent, laxative, carminative and alexipharmic. The milky juice of its stem is used as purgative, rubefacient and expectorant, laxative, expectorant and diuretic (latex); dilates bronchial tubes (latex and stem). |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Nerifoliol and euphol (latex); taraxerol, friedelan-3-alpha-ol and -3-beta-ol (leaf and stem). |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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Name |
CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| Euphol |
514-47-6 |
4,4,10,13,14-pentame
thyl-17-(6-methylhep
t-5-en-2-yl)-2,3,5,6
,7,11,12,1
5,16,17-
decahydro-1H-cyclope
nta[a]phenanthren-3-
ol |
C30H50O |
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| Taraxerol |
22076-46-6 |
4,4,6a,6a,8a,11,11,1
4b-octamethyl-1,2,3,
4a,5,6,8,9,10,12,12a
,13,14,14a
-tetrade
cahydropicen-3-ol |
C30H50O |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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As a laxative and expectorant (latex); antidotes for scorpion and snakebites (root); to remove cutaneous affections, warts and in earache; in the cure of hydrophobia (herb juice)). |
| Reference |
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 Sharma, Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants.
Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India. |
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