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Geum urbanum

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements for Geum urbanum. 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: Geum urbanum L.

7Constituent measurements

0Safety records

6Cited sources

48Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 48 licensed products naming Geum urbanum 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

Dry
Extract Type TBA

Source material stated

Aerial parts
Dried grass
Herb top
Herb top and root
Leaf and flower
Leaves and flowers
Root
Whole plant

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
Eugenol	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Eugenol	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	67.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Gallic acid	Live plants	Solvent extraction	≤ 8.35 Milligram/gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Gallic acid	Live plants	Solvent extraction	≥ 5.25 Milligram/gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Ellagitannins (hydrolysable tannins)	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Gallotannins	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Chromatographic tests	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Leaves	Solvent extraction	12 Percent	Unspecified	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.

Owczarek, Aleksandra., Olszewska, Monika Anna., Gudej, Jan. QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF ELLAGIC ACID AND GALLIC ACID IN GEUM RIVALE L. AND G. URBANUM L.. ACTA BIOLOGICA CRACOVIENSIA SERIES BOTANICA, 2014, vol. 56, no. 2, p. 74-78. DOI
Rusu, Mihai Lucian., Marutoiu, Constantin., Sandu, Ion., Tita, Dumitru., Gogoasa, Ioan., Barbu, Constantin-Horia., Popescu, Andreea. HPTLC and GC-MS for separation and identification of eugenol in plants. Jpc-journal of planar chromatography-modern tlc, 2007, vol. 20, no. 2, p. 139-140. DOI
Vollmann, C., Schultze, W. Composition of the Root Essential Oils of Several Geum Species and Related Members of the Subtribus Geinae (Rosaceae). FLAVOUR AND FRAGRANCE JOURNAL, 1995, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 173-178. DOI
Granica, S., Piwowarski, J., Kiss, A. Isolation of tannins from Agrimonia eupatoria, Lythrum salicaria and Geum urbanum and their influence on the release of elastase from stimulated human neutrophils - structure-activity studies . Planta medica, 2014, vol. 80, no. 16, p. 1419-1419.
Palade, Madelena., Teodorescu, Carmen., Heisu, Roxana. Phytochemical studies on the revaluation of the leaves of Geum urbanum L. Farmacia (bucharest, romania), 2001, p. 67-70.
Gstirner, F., Widenmann, H. Contents of the rhizome of Geum urbanum. Scientia pharmaceutica, 1964, p. 98-104.

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