Botanical species · safety record

Calluna vulgaris

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 2 constituent measurements for Calluna vulgaris. 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: Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull.

2Constituent measurements

0Safety records

2Cited sources

39Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 39 licensed products naming Calluna vulgaris 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
Fresh

Source material stated

Flower
Flower buds
Flower tops
Flowering sprays and leaves
Flowers and leaves
Freshly flowering sprays and leaves,from plants around the circumference and center of the heather patch.
Inflorescence
Jeunes pousses

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
Tannins	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Scopoletin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	24.2 Microgram/gram	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	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.

Waksmundzka-Hajnos, M., Smolarz, H.D., Matysik, G. Quantitative determination of scopoletin in some herbs from the Ericaceae family by thin-layer chromatography and densitometry. Acta poloniae pharmaceutica - drug research, 1997, vol. 54, no. 3, p. 237-241.
Murray, AH., Iason, GR., Stewart, C. Effect of simple phenolic compounds of heather (Calluna vulgaris) on rumen microbial activity in vitro. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY, 1996, vol. 22, no. 8, p. 1493-1504. DOI

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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