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Fallopia japonica

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 9 constituent measurements for Fallopia japonica. 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: Fallopia japonica (Houtt.) Ronse Decr.

9Constituent measurements

0Safety records

2Cited sources

54Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Polygonum cuspidatum Siebold & Zucc.
Reynoutria japonica Houtt.

Synonyms are carried from the source compendium. A species may be traded and studied under more than one name, which is exactly how a safety record gets lost.

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 54 licensed products naming Fallopia japonica 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

Extract Type TBA

Source material stated

Fallopia japonica
Fallopia japonica - Root
New material
Rhizome
Root
Root (standardized extract)
Root extract
Root extract (standardised)

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
Aloe-emodin	Roots and other underground parts	Powder	12.7 Microgram/gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Chrysophanol	Roots and other underground parts	Powder	7.68 Microgram/gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Emodin	Roots and other underground parts	Powder	2120 Microgram/gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Physcion	Roots and other underground parts	Powder	1460 Microgram/gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Rhein	Roots and other underground parts	Powder	46.5 Microgram/gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Chrysophanol	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	No resolvable identifier
Emodin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	No resolvable identifier
Physcion	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	No resolvable identifier
Rhein	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	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.

Yan, Yunyan., Chen, Xuan., Hu, Shuang., Tian, Jie., Bai, Xiaohong. Simultaneous Preconcentration and Analysis of Anthraquinones Based on Ultrasound Emulsification Ionic Liquid Microextraction . Journal of chromatographic science, 2014, vol. 52, no. 3, p. 218-225. DOI
Luo, Jian-ming., Huang, Qing-song., Li, Tao. Determination of rhein, emodin, chrysophanol and physcion contents in Polygonum cuspidatum root by HPLC. Zhongyaocai, 2012, p. 736-738.

Boundary

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