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Echinops sphaerocephalus

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 8 constituent measurements for Echinops sphaerocephalus. 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: Echinops sphaerocephalus L.

8Constituent 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

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
Alpha-terthienyl	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	13.7 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Dehydrocostus lactone	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	1.3 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Polyacetylene derivatives	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	2.5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Polyacetylene derivatives	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	48.9 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Quinoline alkaloids	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.72 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Quinoline alkaloids	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≤ 2.27 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Quinoline alkaloids	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≥ 1.8 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Quinoline alkaloids	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≤ 2.2 Percent	GC-MS	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.

Pham Thanh Ky., Schroeder, Peter. Studies on the physiology of the quinoline alkaloids in Echinops spec.. Biochemie und physiologie der pflanzen, 1976, vol. 169, no. 5, p. 461-70.
Radulovic, Niko S., Denic, Marija S. Essential Oils from the Roots of Echinops bannaticus Rochel ex Schrad. and Echinops sphaerocephalus L. (Asteraceae): Chemotaxonomic and Biosynthetic Aspects . Chemistry & biodiversity, 2013, vol. 10, no. 4, p. 658-676. DOI
Horn, Gert., Kupfer, Astrid., Kalbitz, Jutta., Gerdelbracht, Hans-Juergen., Kluge, Holger., Eder, Klaus., Draeger, Birgit. Great globe thistle fruit (Echinops sphaerocephalus L.), a potential new oil crop . European journal of lipid science and technology, 2008, vol. 110, no. 7, p. 662-667. DOI

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A constituent measurement is a fact about material at a stated preparation, not a statement about what that material does in a person. An adverse-effect or genotoxicity record is an observation reported in a source, most often in an animal or laboratory model. Neither is a Metatron Health conclusion about causality, human risk or benefit, and the absence of a record is not proof that a preparation is safe. Nothing here is diagnosis, prescribing or individual medical care.

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