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Alpinia zerumbet

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 8 constituent measurements for Alpinia zerumbet. 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 zerumbet (Pers.) B.L.Burtt & R.M.Sm

8Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

No Health Canada licensed natural health product in the snapshot names this species as a medicinal ingredient under this exact binomial. Absence here means absence from this one register under this one name, not absence from trade, and not a safety verdict.

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	Leaves	Essential oil	4.3 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
(-)-camphor	Leaves	Essential oil	5.3 Percent	—	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Flower	Essential oil	24.4 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Leaves	Essential oil	19.2 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Leaves	Essential oil	43.5 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	11.8 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Labdane diterpenes	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	No resolvable identifier
Myrcene	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	1.1 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	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.

Xu, HX., Dong, H., Sim, KY. Labdane diterpenes from Alpinia zerumbet. PHYTOCHEMISTRY, 1996, vol. 42, no. 1, p. 149-151.
Padalia, R.C., Chanotiya, C.S., Sundaresana, V. Compositional variability in essential oil from different parts of Alpinia speciosa from India. Natural product communications, 2010, vol. 5, no. 2, p. 279-282.
Bhuiyan, Md. Nazrul Islam., Bhuiyan, Md. Nurul Huda., Chowdury, Jasim Uddin., Shamsuzzaman, Sohel., Azim, Mohammad Alaul. CONSTITUENTS OF THE LEAF AND RHIZOME ESSENTIAL OIL OF ALPINIA ZERUMBET (PERS.) BL BURTT & RM SMITH FROM BANGLADESH . Dhaka university journal of biological sciences, 2009, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 59-63.
Chen, Jian Yan., Ye, Zheng Mei., Huang, Tian Yi., Chen, Xiao Dan., Li, Yong Yu., Wu, Shao Hua. Identification of Volatiles in Leaves of Alpinia zerumbet 'Variegata' Using Headspace Solid-Phase Microextraction-Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry . Natural product communications, 2014, vol. 9, no. 7, p. 999-1001.

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