Traditional Chinese medicine uses croton fruit as medicine, which is hot and pungent, and has the functions of breaking accumulation, promoting diuresis and spitting. It is helpful to treat carbuncle and scabies caused by cold constipation, ascites swelling, abdominal distension and acute pain, constipation, diarrhea and dysentery, edema and abdominal distension, phlegm and asthma, laryngopharyngeal obstruction and cold food accumulation. But croton is also toxic and must be used with caution, so eating croton to lose weight is very bad for your health.

Croton seed kernel contains about 40-60% croton oil, and croton oil contains croton resin, which is an ester of croton alcohol, formic acid, butyric acid and croton oleic acid, and has a strong diarrhea inducing effect. Croton is a laxative, and it should not be used indiscriminately because of its composition and pharmacology. Therefore, using croton to lose weight only achieves the effect of excretion, but the rebound effect is very great, and eating croton to lose weight is harmful to the body.

Croton contains about 18% protein, including a toxic globulin called croton toxin. It also contains crotonin 1-3.8%, arginine, lysine, lipolytic enzyme and an alkaloid similar to ricinine. Croton oil contains auxiliary carcinogens. It is a colorless resin, which produces auxiliary carcinogen A3 and carcinogen B2 after hydrolysis. Therefore, eating croton to lose weight is not only unhealthy, but also may cause cancer.