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Ipomoea tricolor

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 5 constituent measurements for Ipomoea tricolor. 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 tricolor Cav.

5Constituent measurements
0Safety records
3Cited sources
0Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

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

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

  • Ergoline alkaloids1
  • Ergometrine1
  • Ergotamine1
  • Scopoletin1
  • Scopolin1

Plant parts

  • Roots and other underground parts2
  • Seed2
  • Unspecified1

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction3

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.

SubstancePlant partPreparationConcentrationAnalytical methodSource
Ergoline alkaloidsUnspecifiedSolvent extraction≤ 0.07 PercentUnspecifiedNo resolvable identifier
ErgometrineSeed0.04 PercentGelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)No resolvable identifier
ErgotamineSeed0.009 PercentGelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)No resolvable identifier
ScopoletinRoots and other underground partsSolvent extractionNuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)No resolvable identifier
ScopolinRoots and other underground partsSolvent extractionNuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)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.

  1. Botz, L., Hahn, E., Szabo, L. G. Botanical identification of Ipomoea tricolor Cav. seed samples from Hungary and thin-layer chromatographic examination of their hallucinogen ergot alkaloids. Acta botanica hungarica, 1991, p. 229-243.
  2. Shimizu, B., Miyagawa, H., Ueno, T., Sakata, K., Watanabe, K., Ogawa, K. Morning glory systemically accumulates scopoletin and scopolin after interaction with Fusarium oxysporum. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURFORSCHUNG C-A JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES, 2005, vol. 60, no. 1-2, p. 83-90.
  3. Hahn, Erika. Qualitative and quantitative examination of lysergic acid derivatives in Ipomoea species. Gyogyszereszet, 1990, p. 349-358.

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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