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Asarum canadense

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 9 constituent measurements for Asarum canadense. 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: Asarum canadense L.

9Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

2Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 2 licensed products naming Asarum canadense 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
Elemicin	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	1.76 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Methyleugenol	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	36.05 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(e)-isoelemicin	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	20 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Aristolochia	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	0.037 Percent	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	No resolvable identifier
Elemicin	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≥ 1.6 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Elemicin	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≤ 4.9 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Methyleugenol	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	53.8 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Methylisoeugenol	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	1.1 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Myristicin	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	2.2 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.

Belanger, Andre., Collin, Guy., Garneau, Francois-Xavier., Gagnon, Helene., Pichette, Andre. Aromas From Quebec. II. Composition of the Essential Oil of the Rhizomes and Roots of Asarum canadense L. . Journal of essential oil research, 2010, vol. 22, no. 2, p. 164-169.
Schaneberg, BT., Applequist, WL., Khan, IA. Determination of aristolochic acid I and II in North American species of Asarum and Aristolochia . Pharmazie, 2002, vol. 57, no. 10, p. 686-689.
MOTTO, MG., SECORD, NJ. COMPOSITION OF THE ESSENTIAL OIL FROM ASARUM-CANADENSE. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 1985, vol. 33, no. 5, p. 789-791. DOI

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