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Akebia quinata

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 8 constituent measurements for Akebia quinata. 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: Akebia quinata (Houtt.) Decne.

8Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

120Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 120 licensed products naming Akebia quinata 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

Akebia quinata stem
Akebia trifoliata - Stem
Caulis
Fruit
Stem
Stem(s)

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
2-pentylfuran	Stem / stalk	Essential oil	1.7 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Carvone	Stem / stalk	Essential oil	1.1 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Eugenol	Fruit unspecified	Essential oil	14.3 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Furfural	Fruit unspecified	Essential oil	2.6 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Lignans	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	—	Mass Spectroscopy and hyphenated methods without chromatography	No resolvable identifier
Methyleugenol	Fruit unspecified	Essential oil	1.1 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Scopolin	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	—	HPLC with standard detection methods	No resolvable identifier
Triterpene saponins	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	—	HPLC with standard detection methods	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.

Ling, Yun., Zhang, Yaping., Zhou, Yu., Jiang, Dengzhao., Xu, Lingling., Liao, Liang. Rapid detection and characterization of the major chemical constituents in Akebia quinata by high performance liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray ionization and quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Analytical methods, 2016, p. 2634-2644.
Kawata, Jyunichi., Kameda, Munekazu., Miyazawa, Mitsuo. Constituents of essential oil from the dried fruits and stems of Akebia quinata (THUNB.) DECNE. . Journal of oleo science, 2007, vol. 56, no. 2, p. 59-63.
Jin, Hong-Guang., Kim, A. Ryun., Ko, Hae Ju., Lee, Sang Kook., Woo, Eun-Rhan. Three New Lignan Glycosides with IL-6 Inhibitory Activity from Akebia quinata . Chemical & pharmaceutical bulletin, 2014, vol. 62, no. 3, p. 288-293.

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