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Euphorbia peplus - Devil's milk

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The plant's sap is toxic to rapidly replicating human tissue, and has long been used as a traditional remedy for common skin lesions, including cancer.The active ingredient in the sap is a diterpene ester called ingenol mebutate. A pharmaceutical-grade ingenol mebutate gel has approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for treatment of actinic keratosis.
==Common name==
 
* '''English''' - devil's milk
* '''Kannada''' - ಚದರಕಳ್ಳಿ
== References ==
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