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Aconitum ferox

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 5 constituent measurements and 2 adverse-effect records for Aconitum ferox. 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: Aconitum ferox Wall. ex Ser.

5Constituent measurements

2Safety records

5Cited sources

5Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 5 licensed products naming Aconitum ferox 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

Root

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

Target tissues

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
Norditerpene alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Aconitine	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.2 Percent	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Aconitine	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	0.2107 Percent	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	No resolvable identifier
Aconitine	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.3 Percent	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	1.1 Percent	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	No resolvable identifier

Recorded adverse effects

Adverse effects reported in the source literature, most often in animal or laboratory models at a stated preparation and dose.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Systemic	—	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	Rat (as animal)	Acute toxicity	Resolve DOI
Systemic	Neurologic	—	Thermal treatment (heating for preservation)	Human (as organism)	Other	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.

HANUMAN, JB., KATZ, A. ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF 4 NORDITERPENOID ALKALOIDS FROM PROCESSED AND UNPROCESSED ROOT TUBERS OF ACONITUM-FEROX . Journal of natural products, 1993, vol. 56, no. 6, p. 801-809. DOI
Deore, S L., Moon, K V., Khadabadi, S S., Deokate, U A., Baviskar, B A. Evaluation of toxicity of 'Vatsanabha' (Aconitum ferox, Ranunculaceae) Before and After Shodhana. . Journal of young pharmacists : jyp, 2013, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 3-6. DOI
Tomar, Brijendra Singh., Vishen, Archana Singh. Vatsnabha- a wonderful poisonous drug.. International journal of ayurveda and pharmaceutical chemistry, 2015, vol. 2, no. 2, p. 17-22.
Mol, V. C. Jiji., Shanmugapriya, P. SCIENTIFIC VALIDATION ON SIDDHA PURIFICATION PROCESS OF NABHI. International journal of pharmaceutical sciences and research, 2017, vol. 8, no. 4, p. 1790-1795.
Bessonova, I. A., Saidkhodzhaeva, Sh. A., Usmanova, S. K. Alkaloids of cultivated species of Aconitum paniculatum and A. ferox.. Khimiya prirodnykh soedinenii, 1995, no. 6, p. 914-915.

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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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