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Bambusa bambos

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 10 constituent measurements for Bambusa bambos. 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: Bambusa bambos (L.) Voss

10Constituent measurements
0Safety records
5Cited sources
17Licensed 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

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 17 licensed products naming Bambusa bambos 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

Source material stated

  • Bambusa bambos - Stem
  • Bambusa bambos - Stem resin
  • Herb
  • Siliceous concretion
  • Stem
  • Stem(s)

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • Cyanogenic glycosides2
  • Tannins2
  • 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde1
  • Calcium oxalate1
  • Cardiac glycosides1
  • Phlobotannins1
  • Saponins1
  • Taxiphyllin1

Plant parts

  • Shoot4
  • Roots and other underground parts3
  • Seed3

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction8
  • Powder2

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
4-hydroxybenzaldehydeShootSolvent extraction—Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)No resolvable identifier
Calcium oxalateRoots and other underground partsPowder——No resolvable identifier
Cardiac glycosidesSeedSolvent extraction—Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo resolvable identifier
Cyanogenic glycosidesShootSolvent extraction≥ 123 Milligram/kilogramColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo resolvable identifier
Cyanogenic glycosidesShootSolvent extraction≤ 1600 Milligram/kilogramColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo resolvable identifier
PhlobotanninsSeedSolvent extraction—Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo resolvable identifier
SaponinsRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction—Phytochemical screeningNo resolvable identifier
TanninsRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction—Phytochemical screeningNo resolvable identifier
TanninsSeedPowder—Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo resolvable identifier
TaxiphyllinShootSolvent extraction——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.

  1. Kumar, H. K. Sundeep., Raju, M. B. V., Acharyya, S., Mishra, B. Isolation of phytoconstituents from the roots of Bambusa arundinacea. European journal of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences, 2016, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 343-347.
  2. Saraswathy, A., Vidhya, B. Phytochemical investigation of the tender shoot of Bambusa bambos (Linn.) Voss. Journal of pharmacognosy and phytochemistry, 2013, vol. 1, no. 5), 52-5, p. 5 pp.
  3. Sundeep Kumar, H.K., Raju, M.B.V., Dinda, S.C., Das, C., Acharyya, S., Sahu, S. Pharmacognostical & physico-chemical studies on the root of Bambusa arundinacea. Der pharmacia lettre, 2012, vol. 4, no. 5, p. 1367-1375.
  4. Manohari, R. Gowri., Saravanamoorthy, M. D., Vijayakumar, T. Poongodi., Vijayan, B. Preliminary phytochemical analysis of bamboo seed. World journal of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, 2016, vol. 5, no. 4, p. 1336-1342.
  5. Rezaul Haque, M., Howard Bradbury, J. Total cyanide determination of plants and foods using the picrate and acid hydrolysis methods. Food chemistry, 2002, vol. 77, no. 1, p. 107-114.

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