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Dioscorea composita

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 3 constituent measurements for Dioscorea composita. 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 composita Hemsl.

3Constituent measurements

0Safety records

2Cited sources

3Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 3 licensed products naming Dioscorea composita 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.

Source material stated

Root

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
Beta-selinene	Leaves	Essential oil	4.32 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Naphthalene	Leaves	Essential oil	3.71 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Steroidal glycosides	—	—	—	—	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.

Odimegwu, Joy I., Odukoya, Olukemi., Yadav, Ritesh K., Chanotiya, C S., Ogbonnia, Steve., Sangwan, Neelam S. A new source of elemol rich essential oil and existence of multicellular oil glands in leaves of the Dioscorea species. . Thescientificworldjournal, 2013, vol. 2013, p. 943598. DOI
Yang, Shunli., Liu, Xikui. Study on diosgenin from Dioscorea composita Hemsl. Zhongcaoyao, 2004, vol. 35, no. 11, p. 1213-1215.

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