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Abies balsamea

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 6 constituent measurements for Abies balsamea. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.

6Constituent measurements

0Safety records

2Cited sources

81Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 81 licensed products naming Abies balsamea as a medicinal ingredient, matched on the exact Latin binomial. A licence records that a product met the regulator's requirements for sale in Canada. It is not evidence that the product works.

Source material stated

Abies balsamea - wood bark, twigs, leaves
Balsam
Bark
Branch terminal leafy
Gum
Gum- abies balsamea resin
Gum-resin
Leaf

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

Substance	Plant part	Preparation	Concentration	Analytical method	Source
Alpha-thujone	Leaves	Essential oil	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Camphor	Leaves	Essential oil	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Fenchone	Leaves	Essential oil	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Leaves	Essential oil	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
P-menth-1-en-3-one	Leaves	Essential oil	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	2.3 Percent	—	No resolvable identifier

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

Caron, Laurie., Deslauriers, Annie., Mshvildadze, Vakhtang., Pichette, Andre. Volatile compounds in the foliage of balsam fir analyzed by static headspace gas chromatography (HS-GC): An example of the spruce budworm defoliation effect in the boreal forest of Quebec, Canada. MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL, 2013, vol. 110, p. 587-590. DOI
Shaw, A. C. The essential oil of Abies balsamea. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 1953, p. 193-199.

Boundary

A constituent measurement is a fact about material at a stated preparation, not a statement about what that material does in a person. An adverse-effect or genotoxicity record is an observation reported in a source, most often in an animal or laboratory model. Neither is a Metatron Health conclusion about causality, human risk or benefit, and the absence of a record is not proof that a preparation is safe. Nothing here is diagnosis, prescribing or individual medical care.

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