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Lactuca sativa

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 3 constituent measurements for Lactuca sativa. 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: Lactuca sativa L.

3Constituent measurements
0Safety records
1Cited sources
26Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 26 licensed products naming Lactuca sativa 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

  • Dry

Source material stated

  • Dried leaf
  • Leaf
  • Plante entière
  • Tincture of the whole plant
  • Whole plant
  • Whole plant(s)

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • Chrysophanol1
  • Emodin1
  • Physcion1

Plant parts

  • Unspecified3

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
ChrysophanolUnspecifiedSolvent extraction≤ 0.5 Milligram/kilogramHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)No resolvable identifier
EmodinUnspecifiedSolvent extraction≤ 0.5 Milligram/kilogramHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)No resolvable identifier
PhyscionUnspecifiedSolvent extraction< 173 Milligram/kilogramHigh 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.

  1. Mueller, S. O., Schmitt, M., Dekant, W., Stopper, H., Schlatter, J., Schreier, P., Lutz, W. K. Occurrence of emodin, chrysophanol and physcion in vegetables, herbs and liquors. Genotoxicity and anti-genotoxicity of the anthraquinones and of the whole plants. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 1999, p. 481-491.

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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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