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Ipomoea mauritiana

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements for Ipomoea mauritiana. 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: Ipomoea mauritiana Jacq.

7Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited 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	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	—	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Roots and other underground parts	—	—	—	No resolvable identifier
Scopoletin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.034 Gram/100 gram	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	No resolvable identifier
Scopoletin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.029 Gram/100 gram	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	No resolvable identifier
Scopolin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	—	No resolvable identifier
Umbelliferone	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Solvent extraction	≤ 8 Microgram/gram	—	No resolvable identifier
Umbelliferone	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Solvent extraction	≥ 7 Microgram/gram	—	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.

Khan, M. Sajjad., Nema, Nitin., Kharya, M. D., Khanam, Salma. Chromatographic estimation of maturity based phytochemical profiling of Ipomoea mauritiana. International journal of phytomedicine, 2009, p. 22-30.
Dighe, Vidya., Adhyapak, Shreeda. Comparison of HPLC and HPTLC techniques for determination of umbelliferone from dried tuber powder of Ipomoea mauritiana Jacq. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, 2011, p. 2894-2900.
Dharmaratne, H. R. W., Jayasinghe, U. L. B., Weerawardhena, W. D. P. P., Herath, H. M. T. B., Fujimoto, Y. Chemical investigation of Ipomoea mauritiana. Acgc chemical research communications, 1997, p. 39-41.
Chandrakala C, Karthik S., Venkatasubramanian, Padma. Phytochemical and Microscopic Analysis of Tubers of Ipomoea mauritiana Jacq. (Convolvulaceae). PHARMACOGNOSY MAGAZINE, 2009, vol. 5, no. 19, p. 272-278.

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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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