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Dioscorea communis

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 9 constituent measurements for Dioscorea communis. 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: Dioscorea communis (L.) Caddick & Wilkin

9Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Tamus communis L.

Synonyms are carried from the source compendium. A species may be traded and studied under more than one name, which is exactly how a safety record gets lost.

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
Dioscin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	Resolve DOI
Gracillin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	Resolve DOI
Phenanthrenes	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Phenanthrenes	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Phenanthrenes	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Phenanthrenes	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Heraclenin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Isopimpinellin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Methylprotodioscin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Chromatographic tests	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.

AQUINO, R., BEHAR, I., DESIMONE, F., PIZZA, C., DAGOSTINO, M. DIOSCIN AND GRACILLIN FROM TAMUS-COMMUNIS. Journal of natural products, 1985, vol. 48, no. 3, p. 502-502. DOI
Zerargui, Fatima., Boumerfeg, Sabah., Charef, Noureddine., Baghiani, Abderrahmane., Djarmouni, Meriem., Khennouf, Seddik., Arrar, Lekhmici., Abu Zarga, Musa H., Mubarak, Mohammad S. Antioxidant Potentials and Xanthine Oxidase Inhibitory Effect of Two Furanocoumarins Isolated from Tamus communis L . Medicinal chemistry, 2015, vol. 11, no. 5, p. 506-513.
AQUINO, R., CONTI, C., DESIMONE, F., ORSI, N., PIZZA, C., STEIN, ML. ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY OF CONSTITUENTS OF TAMUS-COMMUNIS. Journal of chemotherapy, 1991, vol. 3, no. 5, p. 305-309.
Rethy, Borbala., Kovacs, Adriana., Zupko, Istvan., Forgo, Peter., Vasas, Andrea., Falkay, Gyorgy., Hohmann, Judit. Cytotoxic phenanthrenes from the rhizomes of Tamus communis. Planta medica, 2006, vol. 72, no. 8, p. 767-770. DOI

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