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Asclepias currassavica

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 28 constituent measurements for Asclepias currassavica. 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: Asclepias currassavica L.

28Constituent measurements

0Safety records

7Cited 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
Asclepin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	17.4 Milligram/kilogram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Ascleposide	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	1.1 Milligram/kilogram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Calactinic acid methyl ester	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	> 1.5 Milligram/kilogram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Calotropagenin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	15.6 Milligram/kilogram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Calotropin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Calotropins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Cannogenol	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	16 Milligram/kilogram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Cardenolides	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Cardenolides	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Cardenolides	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Cardenolides	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Curassavoside b	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	2 Milligram/kilogram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Desglucouzarin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	11 Milligram/kilogram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Digitoxigenin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	> 1.2 Milligram/kilogram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Kidjolanin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	> 9.5 Milligram/kilogram	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	Resolve DOI
Pregnane derivatives	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Pregnane derivatives	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	Resolve DOI
Sarcostin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	> 1 Milligram/kilogram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Steroidal alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	> 4 Milligram/kilogram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Steroidal alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	14.3 Milligram/kilogram	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	Resolve DOI
Steroidal saponins	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	> 11.9 Milligram/kilogram	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	Resolve DOI
Steroidal saponins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	> 6.9 Milligram/kilogram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Uscharidin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	31.4 Milligram/kilogram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Uscharin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	0.8 Milligram/kilogram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Stem / stalk	—	—	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	No resolvable identifier
Cardenolides	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Frugosid	Seed	Solvent extraction	1.162 Milligram/gram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Frugosides	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	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.

Li, Jun-Zhu., Qing, Chen., Chen, Chang-Xiang., Hao, Xiao-Jiang., Liu, Hai-Yang. Cytotoxicity of cardenolides and cardenolide glycosides from Asclepias curassavica. BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 2009, vol. 19, no. 7, p. 1956-1959. DOI
Roy, MC., Chang, FR., Huang, HC., Chiang, MYN., Wu, YC. Cytotoxic principles from the Formosan milkweed, Asclepias curassavica. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS, 2005, vol. 68, no. 10, p. 1494-1499. DOI
Zhang, Rong-Rong., Tian, Hai-Yan., Tan, Ya-Fang., Chung, Tse-Yu., Sun, Xiao-Hui., Xia, Xue., Ye, Wen-Cai., Middleton, David A., Fedosova, Natalya., Esmann, Mikael., Tzen, Jason T. C., Jiang, Ren-Wang. Structures, chemotaxonomic significance, cytotoxic and Na+, K+-ATPase inhibitory activities of new cardenolides from Asclepias curassavica. ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY, 2014, vol. 12, no. 44, p. 8919-8929. DOI
Demarco, Diego. Micromorphology and Histochemistry of the Laticifers from Vegetative Organs of Asclepiadoideae species (Apocynaceae). Acta Biologica Colombiana, 2015, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 57-65.
Warashina, Tsutomu., Noro, Tadataka. Steroidal glycosides from the roots of Asclepias curassavica.. Chemical & pharmaceutical bulletin, 2008, vol. 56, no. 3, p. 315-22. DOI
ABE, F., MORI, Y., YAMAUCHI, T. CARDENOLIDE GLYCOSIDES FROM THE SEEDS OF ASCLEPIAS-CURASSAVICA. CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN, 1992, vol. 40, no. 11, p. 2917-2920.
Li, Jun-Zhu., Liu, Hai-Yang., Lin, Yi-Ju., Hao, Xiao-Jiang., Ni, Wei., Chen, Chang-Xiang. Six new C(21) steroidal glycosides from Asclepias curassavica L.. STEROIDS, 2008, vol. 73, no. 6, p. 594-600. DOI

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