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Echium vulgare

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements for Echium vulgare. 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: Echium vulgare L.

7Constituent 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

  • Pyrrolizidine alkaloids2
  • Echimidine1
  • Heliosupine1
  • Lycopsamine1
  • Senecionine1
  • Senecionine-n-oxide1

Plant parts

  • Flowering top5
  • Pollen-related2

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction7

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
EchimidineFlowering topSolvent extraction—High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
HeliosupineFlowering topSolvent extraction—High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
LycopsamineFlowering topSolvent extraction—High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
Pyrrolizidine alkaloidsPollen-relatedSolvent extraction≤ 400 Microgram/gramColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryResolve DOI
Pyrrolizidine alkaloidsPollen-relatedSolvent extraction≥ 300 Microgram/gramColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryResolve DOI
SenecionineFlowering topSolvent extraction—High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
Senecionine-n-oxideFlowering topSolvent extraction—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.

  1. Mudge EM., Jones AM., Brown PN. Quantification of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in North American plants and honey byLC-MS: single laboratory validation.. Risk assessment, 2015, vol. 32, no. 12, p. 2068-74. DOI
  2. Boppre, Michael., Colegate, Steven M., Edgar, John A., Fischer, Ottmar W. Hepatotoxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids in pollen and drying-related implications for commercial processing of bee pollen. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY, 2008, vol. 56, no. 14, p. 5662-5672. DOI

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