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Ceanothus americanus

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 3 constituent measurements for Ceanothus americanus. 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: Ceanothus americanus L.

3Constituent measurements
0Safety records
2Cited sources
54Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 54 licensed products naming Ceanothus americanus 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

  • Dried leaves
  • Fresh leaf
  • Leaf
  • Leaf/Leaves
  • Leaves
  • Root

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • Americine1
  • Ceanothamine a1
  • Ceanothine b1

Plant parts

  • Bark3

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction3

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
AmericineBarkSolvent extractionNuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)No resolvable identifier
Ceanothamine aBarkSolvent extractionUV/VIS spectroscopy (photometry)No resolvable identifier
Ceanothine bBarkSolvent extractionUV/VIS spectroscopy (photometry)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. Warnhoff, E. W., Pradhan, S. K., Ma, J. C. N. Ceanothus alkaloids. I. Isolation, separation, and characterization. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 1965, p. 2594-2602.
  2. Klein, Frederick K., Rapoport, Henry. Ceanothus alkaloids. Americine. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1968, p. 2398-2404.

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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