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Glechoma hederacea

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements for Glechoma hederacea. 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: Glechoma hederacea L.

7Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

83Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 83 licensed products naming Glechoma hederacea 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 aerial parts
Fresh whole flowering plant
Herb
Herb top
Leaf
Plante entière
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
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 2.7 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 41.6 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 1.2 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 3.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Sesquiterpene lactones	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	Resolve DOI
Hederacine a	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	No resolvable identifier
Hederacine b	Aerial part of plants	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.

Judzentiene, Asta., Stoncius, Arvydas., Budiene, Jurga. Chemical composition of the essential oils from Glechoma hederacea plants grown under controlled environmental conditions in Lithuania . Journal of essential oil research, 2015, vol. 27, no. 5, p. 454-458. DOI
Kumarasamy, Yashodharan., Cox, Philip J., Jaspars, Marcel., Nahar, Lutfun., Sarker, Satyajit D. Isolation, structure elucidation and biological activity of hederacine A and B, two unique alkaloids from Glechoma hederaceae. Tetrahedron, 2003, vol. 59, no. 34, p. 6403-6407.
Kim, JinPyo., Lee, IkSoo., Ha, DoThi., Seo, JeongJu., Min, ByungSun., Yoo, IckDong., Bae, KiHwan. New Sesquiterpene Lactones from Glechoma hederacea L. and Their Cytotoxic Effects on Human Cancer Cell Lines . Planta medica, 2011, vol. 77, no. 9, p. 955-957. DOI

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