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Erodium cicutarium

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 4 constituent measurements for Erodium cicutarium. 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: Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Her.

4Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

6Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 6 licensed products naming Erodium cicutarium 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

Plante entière
Whole plant(s)

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)	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	Resolve DOI
Gallotannins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Shoot	Solvent extraction	—	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	No resolvable identifier
Methyleugenol	Leaves	Essential oil	10.6 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	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.

Fecka, I., Cisowski, W. TLC determination of tannins and flavonoids in extracts from some Erodium species using chemically modified stationary phases. JPC-JOURNAL OF PLANAR CHROMATOGRAPHY-MODERN TLC, 2002, vol. 15, no. 6, p. 429-432. DOI
Kayani, Safdar Ali., Masood, Ayeesha., Achakzai, Abdul Kabir Khan., Anbreen, Shahila. Distribution of secondary metabolites in plants of Quetta-Balochistan. PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY, 2007, vol. 39, no. 4, p. 1173-1179.
Lis-Balchin, Maria. The essential oils of Pelargonium grossularioides and Erodium cicutarium (Geraniaceae). Journal of essential oil research, 1993, p. 317-318.

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