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Echinopsis peruviana

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 2 constituent measurements for Echinopsis peruviana. 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: Echinopsis peruviana (Britton & Rose) H.Friedrich & G.D.Rowley

2Constituent measurements
0Safety records
2Cited 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

  • Mescaline2

Plant parts

  • Stem2
  • stalk2

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction2

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
MescalineStem / stalkSolvent extraction0.24 PercentHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
MescalineStem / stalkSolvent extraction0.19 PercentElectrochemical tests based on potentiometry (pH electrodes, ionsensitive electrodes, potentiometry)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.

  1. Baldera-Aguayo, Pedro A., Reyna Pinedo, V�ctor M. Phytochemical study of Echinopsis Peruviana. Revista de la Sociedad Qu�mica del Per�, 2014, vol. 80, no. 3, p. 202-210.
  2. Ogunbodede, Olabode., McCombs, Douglas., Trout, Keeper., Daley, Paul., Terry, Martin. New mescaline concentrations from 14 taxa/cultivars of Echinopsis spp. (Cactaceae) (San Pedro) and their relevance to shamanic practice. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY, 2010, vol. 131, no. 2, p. 356-362. DOI

Boundary

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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