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Leucojum aestivum

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 13 constituent measurements for Leucojum aestivum. 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: Leucojum aestivum L.

13Constituent measurements

0Safety records

7Cited 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
Galanthamine	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Galanthamine	Bulb / clove	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Homolycorine	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Lycorine	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Lycorine	Bulb / clove	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Narwedine	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Bulb / clove	Solvent extraction	0.08 Percent	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Calcium oxalate	Live plants	Drying (dehydration)	—	Microscopic detection	No resolvable identifier
Galanthamine	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	0.19 Percent	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Lectins	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Lycorine	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	0.26 Percent	Unspecified	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.

Boit, Hans G., Dopke, Werner., Stender, Wolfgang. Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids. XX. Alkaloids from crinum, zephyranthes, leucojum, and clivia species. Chemische berichte, 1957, p. 2203-2206.
Proskurnina, N. F. Alkaloids of Leucojum aestivum. Isolation of isotazettine. zhurnal obshchei khimii, 1957, p. 3365-3367.
Gheorghiu, Aurel., Ionescu-Matiu, Elena. Presence of lycorine and galanthamine in Leucojum aestivum. Anatomical study of the aerial parts of the plant and of the corresponding powders. Annales pharmaceutiques francaises, 1962, p. 531-538.
Berkov, Strahil., Bastida, Jaume., Nikolova, Milena., Viladomat, Francesc., Codina, Carles. Rapid TLC/GC-MS identification of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in alkaloid extracts . Phytochemical analysis, 2008, vol. 19, no. 5, p. 411-419. DOI
Ekici, N., Dane, F. Calcium oxalate crystals during development of male and female gametophyte in Leucojum aestivum (Amaryllidaceae). Journal of applied biological sciences, 2009, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 12-15.
Gupta, Anita. Mannose specific lectins from edible garlic (Allium sativum). Panjab university research journal (science), 2005, vol. 55, no. 1-4, p. 205-214.
Kobayashi, Shigeru., Kihara, Masaru., Yuasa, Kazuyoshi., Imakura, Yasuhiro., Shingu, Tetsuro., Kato, Akira., Hashimoto, Toshihiro. Alkaloidal constituents of Leucojum aestivum L. (Amaryllidaceae). Chemical Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 1985, p. 5258-5263.

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