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Mentha arvensis

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 12 constituent measurements and 2 adverse-effect records for Mentha arvensis. 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: Mentha arvensis L.

12Constituent measurements

2Safety records

6Cited sources

62Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 62 licensed products naming Mentha arvensis 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

Source material stated

Aerial parts extract
Flower tops
Flowering twigs
Herb
Herb top
Herb top flowering
Leaf
Leaf/Leaves

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

Target tissues

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	1.39 Percent	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Menthone	Live plants	Essential oil	20.25 Percent	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Trans-isopulegone	Live plants	Essential oil	1.81 Percent	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 0.4 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Carvone	Unspecified	Essential oil	80.8 Percent	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Carvone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 1 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Eugenol	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	No resolvable identifier
Menthone	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	No resolvable identifier
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 0.6 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.5 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
P-menth-1-en-3-one	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	No resolvable identifier

Recorded adverse effects

Adverse effects reported in the source literature, most often in animal or laboratory models at a stated preparation and dose.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Reproductive	Testes	Leaves	Solvent extraction	House mouse (as animal)	Reproduction toxicity	Resolve DOI
Reproductive	Urogenital: ovaries	Leaves	Solvent extraction	Human (as organism)	Reproduction toxicity	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.

Sharma, N., Jocob, D. Antifertility investigation and toxicological screening of the petroleum ether extract of the leaves of Mentha arvensis L. in male albino mice . Journal of ethnopharmacology, 2001, vol. 75, no. 1, p. 5-12. DOI
Rai, R., Nath, V. Some lesser known oral herbal contraceptives in folk claims as anti-fertility and fertility induced plants in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. Journal of Natural Remedies, 2005, vol. 5, no. 2, p. 153-159.
Padalia, Rajendra C., Verma, Ram S., Chauhan, Amit., Sundaresan, Velusamy., Chanotiya, Chandan S. Essential oil composition of sixteen elite cultivars of Mentha from western Himalayan region, India . Maejo international journal of science and technology, 2013, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 83-93.
Pedrazzani, A.S., Neto, A.O. The anaesthetic effect of camphor (Cinnamomum camphora), clove (Syzygium aromaticum) and mint (Mentha arvensis) essential oils on clown anemonefish, Amphiprion ocellaris (Cuvier 1830). Aquaculture research, 2014. DOI
Bariya, Rashmi R., Pandya, Himanshu A. Screening, comparative analysis and evaluation of in vitro and in vivo produced Mentha arvensis L. International research journal of humanities, engineering pharmaceutical sciences, 2014, p. 92-96.
Dutt, S. New Indian essential oils. Indian soap journal, 1940, p. 248-255.

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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