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Hura crepitans

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 8 constituent measurements for Hura crepitans. 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: Hura crepitans L.

8Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited 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
Alkaloids	Seed	Essential oil	≤ 5.2 Milligram/100 gram	—	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Seed	Essential oil	≥ 4.8 Milligram/100 gram	—	Resolve DOI
Cardiac glycosides	Seed	Essential oil	≥ 1885 Milligram/100 gram	—	Resolve DOI
Cardiac glycosides	Seed	Essential oil	≤ 1915 Milligram/100 gram	—	Resolve DOI
Tannins	Seed	Essential oil	≤ 5.3 Milligram/100 gram	—	Resolve DOI
Tannins	Seed	Essential oil	≥ 4.7 Milligram/100 gram	—	Resolve DOI
Huratoxin	Live plants	Sap	—	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	No resolvable identifier
Lectins	Live plants	Latex	—	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.

Fowomola, M. A., Akindahunsi, A. A. Nutritional quality of sandbox tree (Hura crepitans Linn.). Journal of medicinal food, 2007, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 159-164. DOI
SAKATA, K., KAWAZU, K., MITSUI, T. STUDIES ON A PISCICIDAL CONSTITUENT OF HURA-CREPITANS .1. ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HURATOXIN AND ITS PISCICIDAL ACTIVITY . Agricultural and biological chemistry, 1971, vol. 35, no. 7, p. 1084-&.
BARBIERI, L., FALASCA, A., FRANCESCHI, C., LICASTRO, F., ROSSI, CA., STIRPE, F. PURIFICATION AND PROPERTIES OF 2 LECTINS FROM THE LATEX OF THE EUPHORBIACEOUS PLANTS HURA-CREPITANS L (SAND-BOX TREE) AND EUPHORBIA-CHARACIAS L (MEDITERRANEAN SPURGE) . Biochemical journal, 1983, vol. 215, no. 3, p. 433-439.

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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