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Ballota nigra

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 8 constituent measurements for Ballota nigra. 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: Ballota nigra L.

8Constituent measurements

0Safety records

6Cited sources

43Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Ballota foetida Lam.

Synonyms are carried from the source compendium. A species may be traded and studied under more than one name, which is exactly how a safety record gets lost.

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 43 licensed products naming Ballota nigra 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

Aerial parts
Flower
Flowering leafy twigs
Herb top
Leaf
Leaf and flower
New material
Whole plant(s)

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
Ballotetroside	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Diterpene ketones	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	2.6 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Ballonigrin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Furan derivatives	Unspecified	—	—	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Furan derivatives	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Phenylpropanoids	Unspecified	—	4 Percent	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Unspecified	—	—	Unspecified	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.

Savona, Giuseppe., Piozzi, Franco., Hanson, James R., Siverns, Michael. Structures of three new diterpenoids from Ballota species.. Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1: Organic and Bio-Organic Chemistry (1972-1999), 1977, no. 3, p. 322-4.
Seidel, V., Bailleul, F., Libot, F., Tillequin, F. A phenylpropanoid glycoside from Ballota nigra. Phytochemistry, 1997, vol. 44, no. 4, p. 691-693. DOI
Toth, Eniko., Toth, Gabor., Mathe, Imre., Blunden, Gerald. Martynoside, forsythoside B, ladanein and 7a-acetoxyroyleanone from Ballota nigra L.. BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY, 2007, vol. 35, no. 12, p. 894-897. DOI
Balansard, J. Pharmacological study of Ballota foetida.. Comptes rendus des seances de la societe de biologie et de ses filiales, 1934, vol. 115, p. 1295-7.
Jamzad, Mina., Rustaiyan, Abdolhossein., Jamzad, Ziba., Masoudi, Shiva. Essential Oil Composition of Salvia indica L., Thymus caucasicus Wind. Ex Ronniger subsp Grossheimii (Ronniger) Jalas. and Ballota nigra L. Three Labiatae Species from Iran . Journal of essential oil bearing plants, 2011, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 76-83.
Seidel, Veronique., Bailleul, Francois., Tillequin, Francois. Terpenoids and phenolics in the genus Ballota L. (Lamiaceae).. Recent research developments in phytochemistry, 1999, vol. 3, p. 27-39.

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