Croton nepetaefolius Baill is the aromatic plant native to northeast of Brazil popularly known as “marmeleiro sabiá”. It is used in folk medicine as a stomachic, a carminative and for the treatment of intestinal colic. A total of 26 compounds were obtained by hydrodistillation and identified by GC - MS and CG - FID in the three essential oils samples , being 5 monoterpenes (36.9%), 7 sesquiterpenes (31.8%) and ...