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A familia contén unha gran variedade de [[filotoxinas]]s, principalmente [[Terpeno|diterpeno]] [[éster]]es, [[alcaloide]]s, [[glicósido]] e toxinas do tipo [[rícino]].
Un [[zume]] leitoso ou [[látex]] é característico das subfamilias [[Euphorbioideae]] e [[Crotonoideae]] que é pozoñento na primeira <ref>Chittaranjan Kol ''Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Plantation and Ornamental Crops''. Springer (2011), p. 127 </ref>pero incocuo en Crotonoideae <ref>D. J. Mabberley ''Mabberley's Plant-Book:A Portable Dictionary of Plants, Their Classification and Uses''. Cambridge University Press (2008), p. 326</ref>
▲== Uses ==
▲A number of plants of the Spurge family are of considerable economic importance. Prominent plants include [[Cassava]] (''Manihot esculenta''), [[Castor oil plant]] (''Ricinus communis''), Barbados nut (''[[Jatropha curcas]]''), and the [[Para rubber tree]] (''Hevea brasiliensis'').
Many are grown as [[ornamental plant]]s, such as Poinsettia (''[[Euphorbia pulcherrima]]''). Leafy spurge (''[[Euphorbia esula]]'') and [[Chinese tallow]] (''Sapium sebiferum'') are [[Invasive species|invasive]] weeds in North America.
In medicine, some species of Euphorbiaceae proved effective against genital [[herpes]] (HSV-2).<ref>LA Betancur-Galvis; GE Morales; JE Forero & J Roldan (2002), "[http://www.bioline.org.br/abstract?id=oc02103 Cytotoxic and Antiviral Activities of Colombian Medicinal Plant Extracts of the Euphorbia genus]", ''Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz'', Vol. 97, No. 4, 2002, pp. 541-546. Retrieved through Bioline International (keywords: herpes simplex - Bioline Code: oc02103) </ref>
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