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Equisetum palustre

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 15 constituent measurements, 3 adverse-effect records and 1 genotoxicity assay for Equisetum palustre. 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: Equisetum palustre L.

15Constituent measurements

4Safety records

7Cited 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

Effect types

Target tissues

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
Nicotine	Aerial part of plants	—	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Palustrine	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	429 Milligram/kilogram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Palustrine	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	9.5 Milligram/gram	—	Resolve DOI
Piperidine alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	—	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Piperidine alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≥ 218.2 Milligram/kilogram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Piperidine alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≤ 488.9 Milligram/kilogram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Piperidine alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 245 Milligram/kilogram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Piperidine alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 367 Milligram/kilogram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Sesquiterpene lactones	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	10 Milligram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
(e)-geranylacetone	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	2.5 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alpha-ionone	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	3.1 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Beta-damascenone	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	1.3 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Beta-ionone	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	4.1 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Beta-ionone epoxide	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	2.3 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Beta-thujone	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	1.4 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier

Recorded adverse effects

Adverse effects reported in the source literature, most often in animal or laboratory models at a stated preparation and dose.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Digestive	Digestive	Aerial part of plants	—	—	Case report	Resolve DOI
Digestive	Digestive	—	Fresh	Cattle (as animal)	Case report	Resolve DOI
Digestive	Digestive	—	Fresh	Horse (as animal)	Case report	Resolve DOI

Genotoxicity testing

Outcomes of genotoxicity assays as recorded in the source. A negative assay is a result under those test conditions, not a clearance.

Outcome	Endpoint	Test	Tested organism	Metabolic activation	Source
Positive	DNA damage and/or repair	micronucleus assay	Human (as organism)	—	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.

Cortinovis, Cristina., Caloni, Francesca. Alkaloid-Containing Plants Poisonous to Cattle and Horses in Europe. Toxins, 2015, vol. 7, no. 12, p. 5301-5307. DOI
Sabine Aboling., Sabine Rottmann., Petra Wolf., Doris Jahn-Falk., Josef Kamphues. Case Report: Complex Plant Poisoning in Heavily Pregnant Heifers in Germany. Journal of veterinary science & technology, 2014, vol. 5, no. 3, p. 1-3. DOI
Milovanovic, Vesna., Radulovic, Niko., Todorovic, Zoran., Stankovic, Miroslava., Stojanovic, Gordana. Antioxidant, antimicrobial and genotoxicity screening of hydro-alcoholic extracts of five serbian Equisetum species . Plant foods for human nutrition, 2007, vol. 62, no. 3, p. 113-119. DOI
Milovanovic, Vesna., Radulovic, Niko., Mitic, Violeta., Palic, Radosav., Stojanovic, Gordana. Chemical composition of the essential oils of Equisetum palustre L. and Equisetum telmateia Ehrh. . Journal of essential oil research, 2008, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 310-314.
Cramer, Luise., Ernst, Ludger., Lubienski, Marcus., Papke, Uli., Schiebel, Hans-Martin., Jerz, Gerold., Beuerle, Till. Structural and quantitative analysis of Equisetum alkaloids. Phytochemistry, 2015, vol. 116, p. 269-282. DOI
Glet, E., Gutschmidt, J., Glet, P. Das Alkaloid im Equisetum palustre. Hoppe-seyler's zeitschrift fur physiologische chemie, 1936, vol. 244, no. 5, p. 229-234. DOI
Wei, Zuo-Fu., Chen, Yung-Husan., Sung, Ping-Jyun., Wang, Guey-Horng., Liou, Jing-Ru., Wang, Sheng-Yang., Chang, Shang-Tzen., Zu, Yuan Gang., Chiang, Michael Y., Fu, Yu-Jie., Chang, Fang-Rong. Equisetumone, a novel 4-5-olide secocaryophyllane sesquiterpene from Equisetum palustre . Rsc advances, 2014, vol. 4, no. 86, p. 45749-45752. 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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