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Gynocardia odorata

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 5 constituent measurements for Gynocardia odorata. 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: Gynocardia odorata R.Br.

5Constituent measurements

0Safety records

5Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

No Health Canada licensed natural health product in the snapshot names this species as a medicinal ingredient under this exact binomial. Absence here means absence from this one register under this one name, not absence from trade, and not a safety verdict.

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
Diterpene lactones	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Gynocardin	Seed	—	—	—	No resolvable identifier
Gynocardin	Seed	Solvent extraction	6.8 Percent	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Hydrogen cyanide (cyanides expressed as hydrogen cyanide)	Seed	—	0.92 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.

Greshoff, Maurits. Amount of hydrogen cyanide in the seeds of gynocardia odorata. Pharm. weekbl., 42, 102-5, None, vol. . Weekbl. 42, p. 102-5.
Power, Frederick B. The botanical source, physical characters, and chemical constituents of chaulmoogra oil. American journal of pharmacy (1835-1936), 1915, vol. 87, p. 493-500.
Jagan, Mohan. C., Deepa, L., Ubaidulla, U., Ganesh, N. In vitro antioxidant activity of hydroalcoholic extract of Gynocardia odorata Roxb. leaf. International journal of research in pharmaceutical and nano sciences, 2013, vol. 2, no. 3, p. 351-357.
PRADHAN, BP., CHAKRABORTY, S., GHOSH, RK., ROY, A. DITERPENOID LACTONES FROM THE ROOTS OF GYNOCARDIA-ODORATA. Phytochemistry, 1995, vol. 39, no. 6, p. 1399-1402. DOI
Coburn, Robert A., Long, Louis, Jr. Gynocardin. Journal of organic chemistry, 1966, vol. 31, no. 12, p. 4312-15.

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