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Matricaria chamomilla

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 6 constituent measurements for Matricaria chamomilla. 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: Matricaria chamomilla L.

6Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

989Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Matricaria suaveolens L.
Matricaria recutita L.

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

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 989 licensed products naming Matricaria chamomilla 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

Source material stated

Blue Chamomile
Dried flower(s)
Dried flowers
Dried whole plant during flowering or whole fresh plant
Flower
Flower (standardized extract)
Flower buds
Flower extract

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
(+)-pulegone	Live plants	Essential oil	≤ 1.01 Percent	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	No resolvable identifier
(+)-pulegone	Live plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.316 Percent	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	No resolvable identifier
Coumarins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Coumarins	Flower	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Sesquiterpene lactones	Flower	Solvent extraction	6.18 Percent Area	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Umbelliferone	Flower	Solvent extraction	—	HPLC-DAD	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.

Reichling, Juergen., Beiderbeck, Rolf., Becker, Hans. Comparative studies on secondary products from tumors, flowers, foliage and roots of Matricaria chamomilla L. Planta medica, 1979, p. 322-332.
Paszkiewicz, Monika., Orlita, Aleksandra., Dziabas, Alicja., Golebiowski, Marek., Lojkowska, Ewa., Szafranek, Janusz., Malinski, Edmund., Stepnowski, Piotr. Simplex optimized LC analysis of plant coumarins and furanocoumarins. Chromatographia, 2008, p. 653-657.
Tschiggerl, Christine., Bucar, Franz. Guaianolides and Volatile Compounds in Chamomile Tea. Plant foods for human nutrition (new york, ny, united states), 2012, p. 129-135.
Graciela Malinskas, Griselda Ana., Santi, Maria Noemi., Retamar, Juan Alberto. The essential oil of Matricaria chamomilla L. (chamomile). Essenze, derivati agrumari, 1985, p. 52-61.

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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