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Drosera rotundifolia

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements for Drosera rotundifolia. 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: Drosera rotundifolia L.

7Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

65Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 65 licensed products naming Drosera rotundifolia 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

Fresh whole plants collected at the start of flowering
Herb(s)
Parties aériennes fraîches récoltées au moment de la floraison
Plante entière
Plante entière début de floraison
Underground part(s)
Whole plant
Whole plant (extract)

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
Naphthoquinones	Aerial part of plants	Drying (dehydration)	≥ 0.153 Percent	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Naphthoquinones	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Naphthoquinones	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≤ 2.3 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Naphthoquinones	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≥ 1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Naphthoquinones	Aerial part of plants	Drying (dehydration)	≤ 0.184 Percent	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Plumbagin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	22.3 Microgram/gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Plumbagin	Aerial part of plants	Drying (dehydration)	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI

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.

Baranyai, B., Backer, C., Reich, C., Lindequist, U. The production of 7-methyljuglone, plumbagin and quercetin in wild and cultivated Drosera rotundifolia and Drosera intermedia . Mires and peat, 2016, vol. 18. DOI
Babula, Petr., Mikelova, Radka., Adam, Vojtech., Kizek, Rene., Havel, Ladislav., Sladky, Zdenek. Using of liquid chromatography coupled with diode array detector for determination of naphthoquinones in plants and for investigation of influence of pH of cultivation medium on content of plumbagin in Dionaea muscipula . Journal of chromatography b-analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences, 2006, vol. 842, no. 1, p. 28-35. DOI
Kamarainen, T., Uusitalo, J., Jalonen, J., Laine, K., Hohtola, A. Regional and habitat differences in 7-methyljuglone content of Finnish Drosera rotundifolia . Phytochemistry, 2003, vol. 63, no. 3, p. 309-314. DOI

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