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Croton grewioides Baill., a species native to the Caatinga, popularly known as canela de cunhã, is used in traditional medicine to treat gastrointestinal diseases such as diarrhea, gastritis and stomach ulcers. This study aimed to identify the chemical composition of the essential oil of C. grewioides (OECG) and evaluate its antibacterial and antib...
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... major compound identified in the chemical analysis was estragole with 50.34 %, followed by the compounds methyl eugenol with 19.39 % and anisole with 10.99 %. In total, 18 compounds were identified by chromatography analysis (Figure 1 and Figure 2), whose percentages are described in Table 1. In the study by Santos et al. [16] that evaluated the chemical composition of essential oils from three chemotypes of C. grewioides extracted from branches, in the first chemotype the major component was (E)-anethole with 70.5 %. ...
