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Decodon verticillatus

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 9 constituent measurements for Decodon verticillatus. 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: Decodon verticillatus (L.) Elliott

9Constituent measurements
0Safety records
3Cited 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

  • Alkaloids8
  • Pipecolic acid (-)-1

Plant parts

  • Aerial part of plants4
  • Flower2
  • Fruit unspecified2
  • Unspecified1

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction8

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
AlkaloidsFruit unspecifiedSolvent extraction≥ 0.08 PercentColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo resolvable identifier
AlkaloidsAerial part of plantsSolvent extraction—Chromatographic testsNo resolvable identifier
AlkaloidsAerial part of plantsSolvent extraction≥ 0.06 PercentColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo resolvable identifier
AlkaloidsAerial part of plantsSolvent extraction≤ 0.42 PercentColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo resolvable identifier
AlkaloidsFlowerSolvent extraction≥ 0.34 PercentColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo resolvable identifier
AlkaloidsFlowerSolvent extraction≤ 0.4 PercentColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo resolvable identifier
AlkaloidsFruit unspecifiedSolvent extraction≤ 0.22 PercentColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo resolvable identifier
AlkaloidsUnspecified———No resolvable identifier
Pipecolic acid (-)-Aerial part of plantsSolvent extraction—Chromatographic testsNo 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.

  1. Ferris, James P. Lythraceae alkaloids. I. Isolation and structural studies of the alkaloids of Decodon verticillatus. Journal of organic chemistry, 1962, p. 2985-2990.
  2. Gupta, Ram Nath., Horsewood, Peter., Koo, Swe Hoo., Spenser, Ian D. The biosynthesis of the Lythraceae alkaloids. I. The lysine-derived fragment. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 1979, p. 1606-1614.
  3. Hanaoka, Miyoji., Ogawa, Nobuo., Arata, Yoshio. Total synthesis of (+)-vertaline. Chemical pharmaceutical bulletin, 1974, p. 973-974.

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