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Datura ferox

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 27 constituent measurements for Datura ferox. 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: Datura ferox L.

27Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited 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
Apohyoscine (aposcopolamine)	Seed	Solvent extraction	8.7 Percent	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	Resolve DOI
Hygrine	Seed	Solvent extraction	0.6 Percent	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	Resolve DOI
Scopolamine	Seed	Solvent extraction	76.3 Percent	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	Resolve DOI
Tropane alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Tropane alkaloids	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Scopolamine	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.09 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Scopolamine	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.15 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Scopolamine	Seed	Solvent extraction	0.15 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Scopolamine	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.0029 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Scopolamine	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.32 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Scopolamine	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.021 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Scopolamine	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.0036 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Scopolamine	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.004 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Scopolamine	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.013 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Tropane alkaloids	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.11 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Tropane alkaloids	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.23 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Tropane alkaloids	Seed	Solvent extraction	0.52 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Tropane alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.36 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Tropane alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.08 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Tropane alkaloids	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.47 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Tropane alkaloids	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.1 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Tropane alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	0.01 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Tropane alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	0.03 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Tropane alkaloids	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.28 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Tropane alkaloids	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.02 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Tropane alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	0.01 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Tropine	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	0.04 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	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.

Padula, L.Z., Bandoni, A.L., Rondina, R.V.D., Coussio, J.D. Quantitative determination of total alkaloids and scopolamine from the argentine 'Chamico' (Datura ferox L.). Acta physiologica latino-americana, 1975, vol. 25, no. 3, p. 245.
Vitale, AA., Acher, A., Pomilio, AB. Alkaloids of Datura ferox from Argentina. Journal of ethnopharmacology, 1995, vol. 49, no. 2, p. 81-89. DOI
ACHARI, R., NEWCOMBE, F. GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY OF TROPANE ALKALOIDS. Planta medica, 1971, vol. 19, no. 3, p. 241-&.
Doncheva, T., Berkov, S., Philipov, S. Comparative study of the alkaloids in tribe Datureae and their chemosystematic significance . Biochemical systematics and ecology, 2006, vol. 34, no. 6, p. 478-488. DOI

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