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Apocynum androsaemifolium

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 10 constituent measurements for Apocynum androsaemifolium. 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: Apocynum androsaemifolium L.

10Constituent measurements

0Safety records

1Cited sources

6Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 6 licensed products naming Apocynum androsaemifolium 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
Cardenolide glycosides	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.056 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Cardenolide glycosides	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.537 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Cardenolides	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.048 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Cardenolides	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.25 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Cardenolides	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.027 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Cardenolides	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.122 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Cardenolides	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.026 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Cardenolides	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.045 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Cymarin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.19 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Cymarin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.007 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	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.

Genkina, G. L., Khodzhaev, K. Kh., Shakirov, T. T., Abubakirov, N. K. Roots of Apocynum androsaemifolium and Apocynum cannabinum studied for cardenolide content. Khimiya prirodnykh soedinenii, 1972, vol. (3), p. 321-4.

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