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Arnebia euchroma

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 18 constituent measurements for Arnebia euchroma. 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: Arnebia euchroma (Royle) I.M.Johnst.

18Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

54Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 54 licensed products naming Arnebia euchroma 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

Dry
Fresh

Source material stated

Root
Root (processed)
Root and 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
Acetoxyisovalerylalkannin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 1529 Microgram/gram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Acetoxyisovalerylalkannin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 4371 Microgram/gram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Acetoxyisovalerylalkannin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	6.5 Milligram/gram	HPLC-DAD	Resolve DOI
Acetylshikonin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	19.7 Milligram/gram	HPLC-DAD	Resolve DOI
Acetylshikonin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 1024 Microgram/gram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Acetylshikonin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 528 Microgram/gram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Beta,beta-dimethylacrylshikonin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 12.34 Milligram/gram	HPLC-DAD	Resolve DOI
Beta,beta-dimethylacrylshikonin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 11.66 Milligram/gram	HPLC-DAD	Resolve DOI
Deoxyshikonin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	0.262 Milligram/gram	HPLC-DAD	Resolve DOI
Furan derivatives	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	Resolve DOI
Isobutylshikonin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	4.78 Milligram/gram	HPLC-DAD	Resolve DOI
Isovalerylshikonin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	14 Milligram/gram	HPLC-DAD	Resolve DOI
Naphthoquinones	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	11.7 Milligram/gram	HPLC-DAD	Resolve DOI
Naphthoquinones	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	Resolve DOI
Shikonin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	1.52 Milligram/gram	HPLC-DAD	Resolve DOI
Shikonin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 207 Microgram/gram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Shikonin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 105 Microgram/gram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Camphor	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	5.82 Percent	GC-MS	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.

Hu, Yani., Jiang, Zhihong., Leung, Kelvin Sze-Yin., Zhao, Zhongzhen. Simultaneous determination of naphthoquinone derivatives in Boraginaceous herbs by high-performance liquid chromatography. ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA, 2006, vol. 577, no. 1, p. 26-31. DOI
Gu, Hongxia., Ji, Haiwei., Zhai, Jing. Analysis of the volatile oil from lithospermum erythrorhizon and arnebia euchroma by GC-MS.. Zhongguo yaofang, 2010, vol. 21, no. 27, p. 2546-2548.
Wang, Lun., Li, Fu., Liu, Xin., Chen, Bin., Yu, Kai., Wang, Ming-Kui. Meroterpenoids and a Naphthoquinone from Arnebia euchroma and Their Cytotoxic Activity. PLANTA MEDICA, 2015, vol. 81, no. 4, p. 320-326. DOI
Sharma, Nandini., Sharma, Upendra K., Gupta, Ajai P., Devla., Sinha, Arun K., Lal, Brij., Ahuja, Paramvir S. Simultaneous densitometric determination of shikonin, acetylshikonin, and beta-acetoxyisovaleryl-shikonin in ultrasonic-assisted extracts of four Arnebia species using reversed-phase thin layer chromatography. JOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE, 2009, vol. 32, no. 18, p. 3239-3245. DOI

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