Botanical species · safety record

Hygrophila auriculata

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 10 constituent measurements and 2 adverse-effect records for Hygrophila auriculata. 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: Hygrophila auriculata (Schumach.) Heine

10Constituent measurements

2Safety records

5Cited sources

9Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Hygrophila schulli M.R.Almeida & S.M.Almeida

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 9 licensed products naming Hygrophila auriculata 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

Source material stated

Aged bark
Whole plant

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

Target tissues

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	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	Resolve DOI
Coumarins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Saponins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Tannins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Seed	—	—	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Cardiac glycosides	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier

Recorded adverse effects

Adverse effects reported in the source literature, most often in animal or laboratory models at a stated preparation and dose.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Digestive	Digestive: pancreas	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	In vitro	No resolvable identifier
Nephrotoxicity	Urogenital: kidneys	Seed	Solvent extraction	Rat (as animal)	Acute toxicity	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.

Rastogi, A., Shankar, S., Mahalingam, G. Phytochemical screening, anti-oxidant activity and in vitro anti-diabetic activity of aqueous, methanolic, ethanolic and chloroformic extracts of Hygrophilaauriculata. International journal of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, 2014, vol. 6, no. 5, p. 557-560.
Nab�r�, O., Adama, H., Samson, G., Kiessoum, K., Patrice, Z., Roland, M.N.-T., Moussa, C., Martin, K., Jeanne, M.F., Germaine, N.O. Antibacterial and phytochemical studies of three Acanthaceae species used in burkina faso traditional medicine. Journal of applied pharmaceutical science, 2013, vol. 3, no. 5, p. 49-55. DOI
Hussain, Md. Sarfaraj., Fareed, Sheeba., Ali, Mohd. Hygrophila auriculata (K. Schum) heine: ethnobotany, phytochemistry and pharmacology. Asian journal of traditional medicines, 2010, p. 122-131.
Raj, Vasanth P., Chandrasekhar, Raghu H., Vijayan, P., Dhanaraj, S. A., Rao, Mallikarjuna C., Rao, Venkata J., Nitesh, K. In vitro and in vivo hepatoprotective effects of the total alkaloid fraction of Hygrophila auriculata leaves . Indian journal of pharmacology, 2010, vol. 42, no. 2, p. 99-104. DOI
Preethi, G.P., Gopalakrishna, H.N., Rathnakar, U.P., Durga, P., Vishnu., Shenoy, J. Acute diuretic activity of alcoholic extracts of Hygrophila auriculata seeds in normal wistar albino rats. International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences, 2012, vol. 3, no. 1, p. P283-P289.

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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