Botanical species · safety record

Butea monosperma

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 2 constituent measurements and 7 adverse-effect records for Butea monosperma. 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: Butea monosperma (Lam.) Taub.

2Constituent measurements

7Safety records

4Cited sources

7Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 7 licensed products naming Butea monosperma 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

Branch bark
Flower
Seed(s)
Stem bark

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

Target tissues

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
Cajanin	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Isoformononetin	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI

Recorded adverse effects

Adverse effects reported in the source literature, most often in animal or laboratory models at a stated preparation and dose.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Digestive	Digestive	Seed	Powder	Rat (as animal)	Subchronic	Resolve DOI
Endocrine	Uterus	Seed	—	Rat (as animal)	Reproduction toxicity	Resolve DOI
Endocrine	Uterus	Seed	—	Rat (as animal)	Reproduction toxicity	Resolve DOI
Nephrotoxicity	Urogenital: kidneys	Seed	Powder	Rat (as animal)	Subchronic	Resolve DOI
Other toxicities	Urogenital: prostrate	Seed	Powder	Rat (as animal)	Subchronic	Resolve DOI
Reproductive	Testes	Seed	Powder	Rat (as animal)	Subchronic	Resolve DOI
Endocrine	Uterus	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	House mouse (as animal)	Reproduction toxicity	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.

Sharm, S.K., Rai, G., Vasudeva, N. Anti-fertility investigation of Butea monosperma (Lam.) kuntze root in female albino mice. Research journal of medicinal plant, 2012, vol. 6, no. 3, p. 260-266.
Donga, Shilpa., Shukla, Vinay J., Ravishankar, B., Ashok, B K., Mishtry, I U. Chronic toxicity study of Butea monosperma (Linn.) Kuntze seeds in albino rats.. Ayu, 2011, vol. 32, no. 1, p. 120-5. DOI
Kumar, Dinesh., Kumar, Ajay., Prakash, Om. Potential antifertility agents from plants: A comprehensive review. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY, 2012, vol. 140, no. 1, p. 1-32. DOI
Bhargavan, Biju., Gautam, Abnish Kumar., Singh, Divya., Kumar, Amit., Chaurasia, Sumit., Tyagi, Abdul Malik., Yadav, Dinesh Kumar., Mishra, Jay Sharan., Singh, Amar Bahadur., Sanyal, Sabyasachi., Goel, Atul., Maurya, Rakesh., Chattopadhyay, Naibedya. Methoxylated Isoflavones, Cajanin and Isoformononetin, Have Non-Estrogenic Bone Forming Effect Via Differential Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase (MAPK) Signaling. JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY, 2009, vol. 108, no. 2, p. 388-399. DOI

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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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