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Epilobium angustifolium

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 6 constituent measurements for Epilobium angustifolium. 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: Epilobium angustifolium L.

6Constituent measurements

0Safety records

6Cited sources

2Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 2 licensed products naming Epilobium angustifolium 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

Fresh above ground parts

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
Ellagitannins (hydrolysable tannins)	Flower	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Ellagitannins (hydrolysable tannins)	Flower	Solvent extraction	—	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Tannins	Flowering top	Solvent extraction	51 Microgram/millilitre	Element spectroscopy	Resolve DOI
Beta-glucogallin	Leaves	—	—	—	No resolvable identifier
Ellagitannins (hydrolysable tannins)	Flower	Solvent extraction	—	—	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Flower	—	5.15 Milligram/100 gram	—	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.

Engstrom, Marica T., Sun, Xiaowei., Suber, Matthew P., Li, Min., Salminen, Juha-Pekka., Hagerman, Ann E. The Oxidative Activity of Ellagitannins Dictates Their Tendency To Form Highly Stabilized Complexes with Bovine Serum Albumin at Increased pH. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2016, vol. 64, no. 47, p. 8994-9003.
Spiridonov, NA., Konovalov, DA., Arkhipov, VV. Cytotoxicity of some Russian ethnomedicinal plants and plant compounds. Phytotherapy research, 2005, vol. 19, no. 5, p. 428-432. DOI
Hagerman, Ann E. Radial diffusion method for determining tannin in plant extracts. Journal of chemical ecology, 1987, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 437-49.
Ramstead, Andrew G., Schepetkin, Igor A., Todd, Kimberly., Loeffelholz, James., Berardinelli, James G., Quinn, Mark T., Jutila, Mark A. Aging influences the response of T cells to stimulation by the ellagitannin, oenothein B . International immunopharmacology, 2015, vol. 26, no. 2, p. 367-377. DOI
Baert, Nicolas., Pellikaan, Wilbert F., Karonen, Maarit., Salminen, Juha-Pekka. A study of the structure-activity relationship of oligomeric ellagitannins on ruminal fermentation in vitro . Journal of dairy science, 2016, vol. 99, no. 10, p. 8041-8052. DOI
Haddock, Elizabeth A., Gupta, Raj K., Al-Shafi, Sabah M. K., Haslam, Edwin., Magnolato, Daniele. The metabolism of gallic acid and hexahydroxydiphenic acid in plants. Part 1. Introduction. Naturally occurring galloyl esters. Journal of the chemical society, perkin transactions 1: organic and bio-organic chemistry (1972-1999), 1982, vol. (11), p. 2515-24.

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