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Calycanthus floridus

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 12 constituent measurements for Calycanthus floridus. 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: Calycanthus floridus L.

12Constituent measurements

0Safety records

10Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

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

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
1,8-cineole	Stem / stalk	Essential oil	31.7 Percent	GC-FID-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	—	Traditional analytical techniques (wet chemical tests)	Resolve DOI
Indole alkaloids	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Stem / stalk	Essential oil	2.2 Percent	GC-FID-MS	Resolve DOI
Salicylic acid	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	—	Traditional analytical techniques (wet chemical tests)	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Flower	Essential oil	33.1 Percent	GC-FID-MS	No resolvable identifier
Calycanthine	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Calycanthine	Seed	—	—	—	No resolvable identifier
Indole alkaloids	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Indole alkaloids	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Indole alkaloids	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Taxiphyllin	Bud	Solvent extraction	—	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.

Van Valen, Frans. Contribution to the knowledge of cyanogenesis in angiosperms. Part 6. Cyanogenesis in some Magnoliidae. Proceedings of the koninklijke nederlandse akademie van wetenschappen, series c: biological and medical sciences, 1978, vol. 81, no. 3, p. 355-62.
Akhlaghi, Hashem. Chemical composition of the essential oil from stems of Calycanthus floridus L. var. oblongifolius from Iran . Chemistry of natural compounds, 2008, vol. 44, no. 5, p. 661-662. DOI
Barger, G., Madinaveitia, Juan., Streuli, Paul. Calycanthine. Journal of the chemical society, 1939, p. 510-17.
Marion, Leo., Manske, Richard H. F. Calycanthine. III. Some degradation experiments. Canadian journal of research, section b: chemical sciences, 1938, vol. 16, B, p. 432-7.
Barger, G., Jacob, A., Madinaveitia, J. Calycanthidine, a new simple indole alkaloid. Recueil des travaux chimiques des pays-bas, 1938, vol. 57, no. 5, p. 548-554. DOI
Wishart, DS., Jewison, T., Guo, AC., Wilson, M., Knox, C., Liu, Y., Djoumbou, Y., Mandal, R., Aziat, F., Dong, E., Bouatra, S., Sinelnikov, I., Arndt, D., Xia, J., Liu, P., Yallou, F., Bjorndahl, T., Perez-Pineiro, R., Eisner, R., Allen, F., Neveu, V., Greiner, R., Scalbert, A. (-)-Folicanthine (HMDB30198). Human metabolome database, 2012.
Miller, E.R., Taylor, G.W., Eskew, M.H. The volatile oil of calycanthus floridus. Journal of the american chemical society, 1914, vol. 36, no. 10, p. 2182-2187. DOI
Wishart, DS., Jewison, T., Guo, AC., Wilson, M., Knox, C., Liu, Y., Djoumbou, Y., Mandal, R., Aziat, F., Dong, E., Bouatra, S., Sinelnikov, I., Arndt, D., Xia, J., Liu, P., Yallou, F., Bjorndahl, T., Perez-Pineiro, R., Eisner, R., Allen, F., Neveu, V., Greiner, R., Scalbert, A. (-)-Chimonanthine (HMDB30280). Human metabolome database, 2012.
GOVINDACHARI, TR., NAGARAJAN, K., RAJAPPA, S. STRUCTURE OF CALYCANTHIDINE. Journal of scientific & industrial research, 1962, vol. 21, no. 9, p. 455-&.
Akhlaghi, Hashem., Kakhky, Alireza Motavalizadeh., Fazel-Hashemi, Shirin. Chemical Composition of the Essential Oil from Leaves of Calycanthus floridus L. var. oblongifolius (Nutt.) DE Boufford & SA Spongberg from Iran . Journal of essential oil bearing plants, 2010, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 322-325.

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