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Mercurialis perennis

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements and 2 adverse-effect records for Mercurialis perennis. 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: Mercurialis perennis L.

7Constituent measurements

2Safety records

6Cited sources

12Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 12 licensed products naming Mercurialis perennis 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 fresh flowering plant(s)
Whole plant
Whole plant(s)

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
Alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	2618.5 Milligram/kilogram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≤ 1972.9 Milligram/kilogram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≥ 404.2 Milligram/kilogram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
P-coumaric acid	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	LC-MS	Resolve DOI

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
Hemopoietic	Cardiovascular / haematological	Aerial part of plants	—	Cattle (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	No resolvable identifier
Not stated	Digestive	Leaves	—	Human (as organism)	Case report	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.

Lorenz, Peter., Conrad, Juergen., Bertrams, Julia., Berger, Melanie., Duckstein, Sarina., Meyer, Ulrich., Stintzing, Florian C. Investigations into the Phenolic Constituents of Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis L.) by LC-MS/MS and GC-MS analyses . Phytochemical analysis, 2012, vol. 23, no. 1, p. 60-71. DOI
Lorenz, Peter., Conrad, Juergen., Duckstein, Sarina., Kammerer, Dietmar R., Stintzing, Florian C. Chemistry of Hermidin: Insights from Extraction Experiments with the Main Alkaloid of Mercurialis perennis L. Tracked by GC/MS and LC/MSn . Helvetica chimica acta, 2014, vol. 97, no. 12, p. 1606-1623. DOI
Lorenz, Peter., Hradecky, Marc., Berger, Melanie., Bertrams, Julia., Meyer, Ulrich., Stintzing, Florian C. Lipophilic Constituents from Aerial and Root Parts of Mercurialis perennis L. . Phytochemical analysis, 2010, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 234-245. DOI
FORRESTER, AR. AUTOXIDATION OF HERMIDIN - AN ELECTRON-SPIN-RESONANCE STUDY. Experientia, 1984, vol. 40, no. 7, p. 688-689. DOI
RUGMAN, F., MEECHAM, J., EDMONDSON, J. MERCURIALIS PERENNIS (DOGS MERCURY) POISONING - A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY . British medical journal, 1983, vol. 287, no. 6409, p. 1924-1924.
Watson, PJ. Suspected dog's mercury (Mercurialis perennis) poisoning in cattle. Veterinary record, 1998, vol. 142, no. 5, p. 116-117.

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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