Botanical species · safety record

Lycium barbarum

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 8 constituent measurements for Lycium barbarum. 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: Lycium barbarum L.

8Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

1,351Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 1,351 licensed products naming Lycium barbarum 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
Extract Type TBA
Fresh
decoction
fluid
solid

Source material stated

Bark
Berries
Berry
Berry/Berries
Dried ripe fruit
Dried root-bark
Fruit
Fruit (fried with wine)

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
4-hydroxyacetophenone	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) spectroscopy	Resolve DOI
Alpha-solanine	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	7.84 Milligram/100 gram	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	Resolve DOI
Atropine	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	0.019 ppm	UHPLC-MS-MS	Resolve DOI
Coumarins	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Coumarins	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) spectroscopy	Resolve DOI
Isoflavonoids	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Lignans	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Phenylpropanoids	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI

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.

Zhou, Zheng-Qun., Xiao, Jia., Fan, Hong-Xia., Yu, Yang., He, Rong-Rong., Feng, Xiao-Lin., Kurihara, Hiroshi., So, Kwok-Fai., Yao, Xin-Sheng., Gao, Hao. Polyphenols from wolfberry and their bioactivities. Food chemistry, 2017, vol. 214, p. 644-654. DOI
Feng, M.-L., Wang, S.-F., Zhang, X.-X. Chemical constituents in fruits of Lycium barbarum. Chinese traditional and herbal drugs, 2013, vol. 44, no. 3, p. 265-268. DOI
Kokotkiewicz, A., Migas, P., Stefanowicz, J., Luczkiewicz, M., Krauze-Baranowska, M. Densitometric TLC analysis for the control of tropane and steroidal alkaloids in Lycium barbarum . Food chemistry, 2017, vol. 221, p. 535-540. DOI
Adams, Michael., Wiedenmann, Matthias., Tittel, Gerolf., Bauer, Rudolf. HPLC-MS trace analysis of atropine in Lycium barbarum berries. Phytochemical analysis, 2006, vol. 17, no. 5, p. 279-283. DOI

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