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Fagopyrum esculentum

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 2 constituent measurements and 1 adverse-effect record for Fagopyrum esculentum. 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: Fagopyrum esculentum Moench

2Constituent measurements

1Safety records

2Cited sources

115Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 115 licensed products naming Fagopyrum esculentum 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.

Extract types on licence

Source material stated

Fagopyrum esculentum
Fagopyrum esculentum - seed
Fagopyrum esculentum - whole plant
Graine
Leaf
New material
Seed
Seed(s)

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
Fagopyrin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≥ 322 Microgram/gram	HPLC-FD	Resolve DOI
Fagopyrin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≤ 4840 Microgram/gram	HPLC-FD	Resolve DOI

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
Other toxicities	Skin/subcutis	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	In vitro	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.

Hinneburg, I., Kempe, S., Ruettinger, H.-H., Neubert, R. H. H. A CE method for measuring phototoxicity in vitro. Chromatographia, 2005, p. 325-329.
Stojilkovski, Katja., Glavac, Nina Kocevar., Kreft, Samo., Kreft, Ivan. Fagopyrin and flavonoid contents in common, Tartary, and cymosum buckwheat. JOURNAL OF FOOD COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS, 2013, vol. 32, no. 2, p. 126-130. 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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