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Lysimachia nummularia

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements for Lysimachia nummularia. 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: Lysimachia nummularia L.

7Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

3Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 3 licensed products naming Lysimachia nummularia 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.

Source material stated

Whole flowering plant

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
Pentacyclic triterpene saponins	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Embelin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	1.2 Milligram/gram	UV/VIS spectroscopy (photometry)	No resolvable identifier
Embelin	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	0.82 Milligram/gram	UV/VIS spectroscopy (photometry)	No resolvable identifier
Embelin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	1.68 Milligram/gram	UV/VIS spectroscopy (photometry)	No resolvable identifier
Methyleugenol	Unspecified	Essential oil	—	Mass Spectroscopy and hyphenated methods without chromatography	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	0.18 Percent	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	0.26 Percent	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	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.

Podolak, Irma., Strzalka, Marian. Qualitative and quantitative LC profile of embelin and rapanone in selected Lysimachia species. Chromatographia, 2008, p. 471-475.
Podolak, Irma., Hubicka, Urszula., Zuromska-Witek, Barbara., Janeczko, Zbigniew., Krzek, Jan. Quantification of saponins in different plant parts of Lysimachia L. species by validated HPTLC-densitometric method. Journal of planar chromatography--modern tlc, 2013, p. 248-253.
Demyd, A. E. Essential oils composition of moneywort (Lysimachia nummularia L.). Medichna khimiya, 2014, p. 58-61.
Podolak, Irma., Koczurkiewicz, Paulina., Michalik, Marta., Galanty, Agnieszka., Zajdel, Pawel., Janeczko, Zbigniew. A new cytotoxic triterpene saponin from Lysimachia nummularia L.. CARBOHYDRATE RESEARCH, 2013, vol. 375, p. 16-20. DOI

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