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Cuscuta japonica

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 5 constituent measurements for Cuscuta japonica. 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: Cuscuta japonica Chois

5Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

9Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 9 licensed products naming Cuscuta japonica 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

Source material stated

New material
Seed
Seed(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
Asarinin	Seed	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.12 Percent/sample	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Asarinin	Seed	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.2 Percent/sample	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Asarinin	Fruit unspecified	—	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
P-coumaric acid	Seed	—	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Sesquiterpene lactones	Seed	—	—	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.

Seuzki, Shigenori., Ando, Youko., Endo, Katsuya. The constituents of Cuscuta japonica fruits. Annual report of the tohoku college of pharmacy, 1994, p. 37-40.
Guo, Hongzhu., Li, Jiashi., Wu, Nan., Lu, Yang., Zheng, Qitai. Chemical constituents of the seed from Cuscuta japonica. Beijing zhongyiyao daxue xuebao, 2000, p. 36-38.
Li, Y., Ye, M., Liu, H., Ji, X., Yan, Y. Characterization and analysis of Semen Cuscutae by capillary gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Journal of Separation Science, 2002, vol. 25, no. 4, p. 255-259. DOI

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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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