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Meum athamanticum

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 9 constituent measurements for Meum athamanticum. 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: Meum athamanticum Jacq.

9Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

No Health Canada licensed natural health product in the snapshot names this species as a medicinal ingredient under this exact binomial. Absence here means absence from this one register under this one name, not absence from trade, and not a safety verdict.

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
Furan derivatives	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	3.5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	13.4 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
3-butylidenephthalide	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	6.3 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
3-butylidenephthalide	Fruit unspecified	Essential oil	—	Chromatographic tests	No resolvable identifier
Ligustilide	Fruit unspecified	Essential oil	—	Chromatographic tests	No resolvable identifier
Ligustilide	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	36.2 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Myrcene	Live plants	Essential oil	≤ 4.2 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Myrcene	Live plants	Essential oil	≥ 1.9 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Myristicin	Seed	Essential oil	1.6 Percent	GC-MS	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.

Stahl, Egon., Bohrmann, Hans. Phthalides, chief constituents of the essential oil of Meum athamanticum fruits. Naturwissenschaften, 1967.
Tesso, Hailemichael., Kubeczka, Karl-Heinz., Koenig, Wilfried A. A new phthalide from the essential oil of Meum athamanticum. Flavour and fragrance journal, 2006, vol. 21, no. 4, p. 622-625. DOI
Tirillini, B., Pellegrino, R., Menghini, A., Tomaselli, B. Essential oil components in the epigeous and hypogeous parts of Meum athamanticum Jacq.. Journal of essential oil research, 1999, vol. 11, no. 2, p. 251-252.
Hethelyi, Eva B., Galambosi, Bertalan. GC and GC-MS study of essential all of a new spice species, Meim athamanticum Jacq.. Olaj, szappan, kozmetika, 2003, p. 18-24.

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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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