In traditional medicine, the leaves of the plant are used as a haemostatic and are also drastic purgative.
A leaf decoction is diuretic.
The fruit and seeds may have contraceptive properties; the seeds are considered toxic.
However, there are variations in the toxicity of the seeds.
They contain a purgative oil (Hell oil or Oleum ricini majoris, a phytotoxin (curcin) and diterpene esters.
The oil has purgative properties and is used as an pain reliever from rheumatism.
The latex heals wounds and has anti-microbial properties.
Constituents
Lectines and phorbol esters, deoxypreussomerins, palmarumycins, jatrophine, curcin.
Pharmacology
Physic nut has disinfectant and antiparasitic activity.
The coagulant activity of the latex from Jatropha curcas showed that whole latex significantly reduced the clotting time of human blood. Diluted latex, however, prolonged the clotting time: at high dilutions, the blood did not clot at all. This indicates that this latex possesses both procoagulant and anticoagulant activities.
Dosage
Tincture: check with your homeopath.
Precaution
References
Titre du document / Document title
Comparative evaluation of non-toxic and toxic varieties of Jatropha curcas for chemical composition, digestibility, protein degradability and toxic factors.
Auteur(s) / Author(s)
MAKKAR H. P. S. (¹) ; ADERIBIGBE A. O. (¹) ; BECKER K. (¹). Deoxypreussomerins from Jatropha curcas: are they also plant metabolites?
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