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Curcuma angustifolia

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 15 constituent measurements for Curcuma angustifolia. 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: Curcuma angustifolia Roxb.

15Constituent measurements

0Safety records

1Cited 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	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≤ 4.8 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≥ 1.8 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Camphor	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≥ 4.2 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Camphor	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≤ 21.3 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Curzerenone	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≥ 0.6 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Curzerenone	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≤ 38 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Elemicin	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	0.3 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Furanodienone	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≥ 0.1 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Furanodienone	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≤ 0.2 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Heptylsalicylate	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≥ 0.1 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Heptylsalicylate	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≤ 1 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Methyleugenol	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≥ 0.1 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Methyleugenol	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≤ 10.5 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
P-menth-1-en-3-one	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≥ 0.1 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
P-menth-1-en-3-one	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	≤ 0.3 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	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.

Srivastava, AK., Srivastava, SK., Syamsundar, KV. Volatile composition of Curcuma angustifolia Roxb. rhizome from Central and Southern India. FLAVOUR AND FRAGRANCE JOURNAL, 2006, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 423-426. DOI

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