Botanical species · safety record

Actaea spicata

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 5 constituent measurements for Actaea spicata. 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: Actaea spicata L.

5Constituent measurements

0Safety records

2Cited sources

12Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 12 licensed products naming Actaea spicata 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

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
Corytuberine	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	UV/VIS spectroscopy (photometry)	Resolve DOI
Magnoflorine	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	UV/VIS spectroscopy (photometry)	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Calcium oxalate	Roots and other underground parts	Drying (dehydration)	—	Microscopic detection	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	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.

SLAVIK, J., SLAVIKOVA, L. QUATERNARY ISOQUINOLINE ALKALOIDS AND SOME DITERPENOID ALKALOIDS IN PLANTS OF THE CZECH-REPUBLIC . Collection of czechoslovak chemical communications, 1995, vol. 60, no. 6, p. 1034-1041. DOI
Madaan, Reecha., Bansal, Gundeep., Sharma, Anupam. Pharmacognostic standardization of Actaea spicata.. Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences, 2011, p. 10.

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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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