A Comprehensive Review on Medicinally Important Plant, Croton tiglium L

Croton tiglium L. is a traditional medicinal plant grown in tropical and subtropical zone. The extract of seeds is generally used as medicine as they are rich in secondary metabolites, such as, alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenoids and saponins. Plant is used in the treatment of various ailments in developing countries such as wound healing, constipation, a purgative, traditional dyspepsia, dysenteria, diarrhea and also as analgesic, antimicrobial, insecticidal and anti-inflammatory. The aqueous extract also exhibits antitumor and anti-HIV activity but at the same time the plat contains tumor enhancing principle-phorbol ester. Besides the popular use of this plant in folk medicine, the plant contains some toxic substances which have toxic effect on human health. In this review the complete update on the plant has been enlightened to bring out the hidden medicinal values of the plant. Croton tiglium