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Alpinia calcarata

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 23 constituent measurements for Alpinia calcarata. 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: Alpinia calcarata (Haw.) Roscoe

23Constituent measurements

0Safety records

5Cited sources

1Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 1 licensed products naming Alpinia calcarata 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

Rhizome

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
(-)-camphor	Shoot	Essential oil	≤ 16.1 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(-)-camphor	Shoot	Essential oil	≥ 3.5 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(-)-camphor	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Essential oil	3.64 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(-)-camphor	Flower	Essential oil	10.9 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(-)-camphor	Flower	Essential oil	14.5 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(-)-camphor	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Essential oil	≥ 1.1 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(-)-camphor	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Essential oil	≤ 4.7 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≤ 9.8 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≥ 1.7 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Flower	Essential oil	30.5 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Leaves	Essential oil	28.5 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Shoot	Essential oil	≤ 30.7 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Shoot	Essential oil	≥ 8.1 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Essential oil	35.9 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(-)-camphor	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≤ 4.6 Percent Area	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
(-)-camphor	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≥ 0.5 Percent Area	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
(-)-camphor	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 8 Percent Area	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
(-)-camphor	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 4.9 Percent Area	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≥ 15.1 Percent Area	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 24.7 Percent Area	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 21.9 Percent Area	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≤ 25.7 Percent Area	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Labdane diterpenes	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	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.

Rout, PK., Sahoo, S., Rath, SP., Rao, YR. Analysis of the leaf, rhizome and root oils of two accessions of Alpinia calcarata Rosc. cultivated at Bhubaneswar. JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL RESEARCH, 2005, vol. 17, no. 4, p. 398-400.
Raina, Archana P., Abraham, Z. Chemical composition of essential oils obtained from plant parts of Alpinia calcarata Rosc. (lesser galangal) germplasm from south India. JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL RESEARCH, 2015, vol. 27, no. 3, p. 238-243. DOI
Padalia, Rajendra C., Verma, Ram S., Sundaresan, Velusamy., Chanotiya, Chandan S. Chemical Diversity in the Genus Alpinia (Zingiberaceae): Comparative Composition of Four Alpinia Species Grown in Northern India. CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY, 2010, vol. 7, no. 8, p. 2076-2087. DOI
Kong, LY., Qin, MJ., Niwa, M. Two new bis-labdanic diterpenoids from Alpinia calcarata. ACTA BOTANICA SINICA, 2004, vol. 46, no. 2, p. 159-164.
Raj, Gopan., Pradeep, D. P., Yusufali, C., Dan, Mathew., Baby, Sabulal. Chemical profiles of volatiles in four Alpinia species from Kerala, South India. JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL RESEARCH, 2013, vol. 25, no. 2, p. 97-102. DOI

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