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Aconitum napellus

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 5 constituent measurements and 2 adverse-effect records for Aconitum napellus. 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 napellus L.

5Constituent measurements

2Safety records

4Cited sources

291Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 291 licensed products naming Aconitum napellus 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.

Extract types on licence

Source material stated

Aconitum napellus L.
Fresh whole flowering plant
Fresh whole plant
Fresh whole plant collected at start of flowering
Fresh whole plants collected at start of flowering
Fresh whole plants collected at the start of flowering
Herb(s)
Plant

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
Aconitine	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.042 Percent	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Aconitine	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.104 Percent	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Aconitine	—	—	—	LC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Diterpene alkaloids	—	—	—	LC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Lycoctonine	—	—	—	LC-MS	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
Pulmonary and cardiac	Lung	Flower	Fresh	Human (as organism)	Case report	Resolve DOI
Pulmonary and cardiac	Neurologic: central nervous system	Roots and other underground parts	Drying (dehydration)	Human (as organism)	Case report	Resolve DOI

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.

Burmann, J. Annual Variations in the Amount of Active Principles of Certain Medicinal Plants.. Zzz, 1911, vol. 49, p. 6-9.
Pullela, Ravi., Young, Lorraine., Gallagher, Barry., Avis, Simon P., Randell, Edward W. A case of fatal aconitine poisoning by monkshood ingestion. Journal of forensic sciences, 2008, vol. 53, no. 2, p. 491-494. DOI
Puschner, B., Booth, MC., Tor, ER., Odermatt, A. Diterpenoid alkaloid toxicosis in cattle in the Swiss Alps. Veterinary and human toxicology, 2002, vol. 44, no. 1, p. 8-10.
Moritz, F., Compagnon, P., Kaliszczak, IG., Kaliszczak, Y., Caliskan, V., Girault, C. Severe acute poisoning with homemade Aconitum napellus capsules: Toxicokinetic and clinical data . Clinical toxicology, 2005, vol. 43, no. 7, p. 873-876. DOI

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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