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Capsella bursa-pastoris

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 8 constituent measurements for Capsella bursa-pastoris. 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: Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik.

8Constituent measurements

0Safety records

2Cited sources

17Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 17 licensed products naming Capsella bursa-pastoris 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

Aerial parts
Flowering tops
Fresh above ground parts
Fresh aerial part collected at flowering time
Herb
Herb top
Herb top flowering
Herb(s)

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
Alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	Drying (dehydration)	0.6 Percent	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Calystegine a5	Leaves	Drying (dehydration)	5 Microgram/gram	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Calystegine b2	Leaves	Drying (dehydration)	15 Microgram/gram	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Calystegine b3	Leaves	Drying (dehydration)	70 Microgram/gram	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Calystegin a3	Leaves	Drying (dehydration)	45 Microgram/gram	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Hydrogen cyanide (cyanides expressed as hydrogen cyanide)	Aerial part of plants	Drying (dehydration)	0.5 Percent	Traditional analytical techniques (wet chemical tests)	No resolvable identifier
Oxalates	Aerial part of plants	Drying (dehydration)	0.7 Percent	Traditional analytical techniques (wet chemical tests)	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Aerial part of plants	Drying (dehydration)	3 Percent	Phytochemical screening	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.

Brock, Andrea., Herzfeld, Tobias., Paschke, Reinhard., Koch, Marcus., Draeger, Birgit. Brassicaceae contain nortropane alkaloids. Phytochemistry (elsevier), 2006, vol. 67, no. 18, p. 2050-2057.
Khan, Zafar Iqbal., Ahmad, Kafeel., Zafar, Asma., Bashir, Humayun., Hussain, Abrar., Huma, Zile., Shad, Hazoor Ahmad., Sher, Muhammad., Hussain, Ghulam., Noorka, Ijaz Rasool., . Assessment of poisonous and anti-nutritional compounds in wild edible forages consumed by ruminant species. Journal of environmental science and technology, 2015, vol. 8, no. 3, p. 91-101.

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