Botanical species · safety record

Nepeta cataria

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 5 constituent measurements for Nepeta cataria. 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: Nepeta cataria L.

5Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

192Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Nepeta cataria var. citriodora (Dumort.) Lej.

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 192 licensed products naming Nepeta cataria 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

Aerial parts
Aged bark
Dried grass
Dried leaves and flowering tops
Flower
Flowering aerial part(s)
Flowering grass
Flowering top(s)

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
D,l-isomenthone	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	0.96 Milligram/gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Myristicin	Flower	Essential oil	≥ 3.02 Percent	—	Resolve DOI
Myristicin	Flower	Essential oil	≤ 8.65 Percent	—	Resolve DOI
Sterols, total	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Tannins	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI

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.

Said-Al Ahl, Hussein A. H., Sabra, Ali S., Hegazy, Mona H. Salicylic acid improves growth and essential oil accumulation in two Nepeta cataria chemotypes under water stress conditions . Italian journal of agrometeorology-rivista italiana di agrometeorologia, 2016, vol. 21, no. 1, p. 25-36. DOI
He, Yanfei., Chen, Siyu., Yu, Hai., Zhu, Long., Liu, Yayun., Han, Chunyang., Liu, Cuiyan. Effect of Catnip Charcoal on the In Vivo Pharmacokinetics of the Main Alkaloids of Rhizoma Coptidis. . Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : ecam, 2016, vol. 2016, p. 3532159-3532159. DOI
Naguib, Abdel Moneam Mohamed., Ebrahim, Mohamed Elsayed., Aly, Hanan Farouk., Metawaa, Hemaia Mohamed., Mahmoud, Ahlam Hosni., Mahmoud, Ebtissam A., Ebrahim, Faten Mohamed. Phytochemical screening of Nepeta cataria extracts and their in vitro inhibitory effects on free radicals and carbohydrate-metabolising enzymes . Natural product research, 2012, vol. 26, no. 23, p. 2196-2198. DOI

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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