Botanical species · safety record

Cornus officinalis

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 5 constituent measurements for Cornus officinalis. 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: Cornus officinalis Siebold & Zucc.

5Constituent measurements

0Safety records

2Cited sources

652Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 652 licensed products naming Cornus officinalis 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
Extract Type TBA
decoction
fluid
solid

Source material stated

Dried ripe fruit
Fruit
Fruit (processed with wine)
Fruit (processed)
Fruit extract
Fruit mesocarp
Fruit mesocarp (Processed with wine)
Fruit mesocarp (processed)

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
Hydroxymethylfurfural	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Asarone	Fruit unspecified	Essential oil	7.1 Percent	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Elemicin	Fruit unspecified	Essential oil	3.2 Percent	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Furfural	Fruit unspecified	Essential oil	9.2 Percent	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Methyleugenol	Fruit unspecified	Essential oil	7.4 Percent	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	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.

Miyazawa, Mitsuo., Kameoka, Hiromu. Volatile flavor components of crude drugs. Part VII. Volatile flavor components of Corni Fructus (Cornus officinalis Sieb. et Zucc.). Agricultural and Biological Chemistry, 1989, p. 3337-3340.
Park, Chan Hum., Noh, Jeong Sook., Tanaka, Takashi., Roh, Seong-Soo., Lee, Jang Cheon., Yokozawa, Takako. Polyphenol isolated from Corni Fructus, 7sedoheptulose, modulates advanced glycation endproduct-related pathway in type 2 diabetic mice. ARCHIVES OF PHARMACAL RESEARCH, 2015, vol. 38, no. 6, p. 1270-1280. DOI

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