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Chamaelirium luteum

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 6 constituent measurements for Chamaelirium luteum. 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: Chamaelirium luteum (L.) A.Gray

6Constituent measurements
0Safety records
1Cited sources
42Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 42 licensed products naming Chamaelirium luteum 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

  • Fresh underground part(s)
  • Rhizome
  • Rhizome(s)
  • Root
  • Root and Stolon
  • Root and rhizome
  • Underground part(s)

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • Steroidal saponins4
  • Heloside a1
  • Heloside b1

Plant parts

  • Roots and other underground parts6

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction6

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
Heloside aRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction21.9 MilligramHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
Heloside bRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction2.4 MilligramHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
Steroidal saponinsRoots and other underground partsSolvent extractionHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
Steroidal saponinsRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction289 MilligramHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
Steroidal saponinsRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction66 MilligramHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
Steroidal saponinsRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction0.6 PercentHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI

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. Challinor, Victoria L., Stuthe, Julia M. U., Parsons, Peter G., Lambert, Lynette K., Lehmann, Reginald P., Kitching, William., De Voss, James J. Structure and Bioactivity of Steroidal Saponins Isolated from the Roots of Chamaelirium luteum (False Unicorn) . Journal of natural products, 2012, vol. 75, no. 8, p. 1469-1479. DOI

Boundary

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