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Balsamocarpon brevifolium

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 4 constituent measurements for Balsamocarpon brevifolium. 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: Balsamocarpon brevifolium Clos

4Constituent measurements
0Safety records
2Cited sources
0Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

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

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

  • Tannins2
  • Gallic acid1
  • Tannic acid1

Plant parts

  • Fruit unspecified4

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction2
  • Thermal treatment (heating for preservation)2

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.

SubstancePlant partPreparationConcentrationAnalytical methodSource
Gallic acidFruit unspecifiedThermal treatment (heating for preservation)No resolvable identifier
Tannic acidFruit unspecifiedThermal treatment (heating for preservation)No resolvable identifier
TanninsFruit unspecifiedSolvent extraction≥ 35 PercentNo resolvable identifier
TanninsFruit unspecifiedSolvent extraction≤ 53 PercentNo 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.

  1. Nierenstein, M. To the Closer Knowledge of Some Flower of Giving Tannins. [machine translation].. None, 1905, vol. 1905, p. 197-200.
  2. Norton, Thomas H. Tanning materials of Latin America.. Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, 1918, vol. 13, p. 441-61.

Boundary

A constituent measurement is a fact about material at a stated preparation, not a statement about what that material does in a person. An adverse-effect or genotoxicity record is an observation reported in a source, most often in an animal or laboratory model. Neither is a Metatron Health conclusion about causality, human risk or benefit, and the absence of a record is not proof that a preparation is safe. Nothing here is diagnosis, prescribing or individual medical care.

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