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as a purgative in folk medicine. Extracted from the juice of the fruit of E. elaterium, elaterine was discovered by Stirling in 1835. Elaterin is extracted from elaterium by chloroform and then precipitated by ether. It has the formula C₃₂H₄₄O₇. It forms colourless scales which have a bitter taste, with evidence as

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