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Alstonia scholaris

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 2 constituent measurements and 2 adverse-effect records for Alstonia scholaris. 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: Alstonia scholaris (L.) R.Br.

2Constituent measurements

2Safety records

3Cited sources

7Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 7 licensed products naming Alstonia scholaris 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

Bark

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
Indole alkaloids	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Methyl salicylate	Flower	Solvent extraction	1.1 Percent Area	GC-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
Digestive	Digestive	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	In vitro	Resolve DOI
Digestive	Digestive	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	In vitro	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.

Jong-Anurakkun, Nilubon., Bhandari, Megh Raj., Kawabata, Jun. alpha-Glucosidase inhibitors from Devil tree (Alstonia scholaris). FOOD CHEMISTRY, 2007, vol. 103, no. 4, p. 1319-1323. DOI
Dung, NX., Ngoc, PH., Rang, DD., Nhan, NT., Klinkby, N., Ledercq, P. Chemical composition of the volatile concentrate from the flowers of Vietnamese Alstonia scholaris (L.) R.Br, Apocynaceae. JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL RESEARCH, 2001, vol. 13, no. 6, p. 424-426.
Feng, Liang., Chen, Yan., Yuan, Ling., Liu, Xuan., Gu, Jun-Fei., Zhang, Ming-Hua., Wang, Ying. A Combination of Alkaloids and Triterpenes of Alstonia scholaris (Linn.) R. Br. Leaves Enhances Immunomodulatory Activity in C57BL/6 Mice and Induces Apoptosis in the A549 Cell Line. MOLECULES, 2013, vol. 18, no. 11, p. 13920-13939. 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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