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Ocotea odorifera

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 10 constituent measurements for Ocotea odorifera. 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: Ocotea odorifera (Vell.) Rohwer

10Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Ocotea pretiosa Mez

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

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
(-)-globulol	Leaves	Essential oil	1.4 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Leaves	Essential oil	3.7 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Beta-eudesmol	Leaves	Essential oil	1.7 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Camphor	Leaves	Essential oil	6.5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Ellagitannins (hydrolysable tannins)	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Chromatographic tests	Resolve DOI
Eugenol	Leaves	Essential oil	1.8 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Safrole	Leaves	Essential oil	36.3 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Fraxetin	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Methyleugenol	Leaves	Essential oil	81.2 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Safrole	Leaves	Essential oil	10.6 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.

Alcoba, Ana E T., Melo, Daiana C de., de Andrade, Priscila M., Dias, Herbert J., Pagotti, Mariana C., Magalhaes, Lizandra G., Junior, Walnir G F., Crotti, Antonio E M., Miranda, Mayker L D. Chemical composition and in vitro antileishmanial and cytotoxic activities of the essential oils of Ocotea dispersa (Nees) Mez and Ocotea odorifera (Vell) Rohwer (Lauraceae). . Natural product research, 2017, p. 1-4. DOI
Lima, Rafaela Karin., Cardoso, Maria das Gracas., Moraes, Jair Campos., Carvalho, Stephan Malfitano., Melo, Bruno Almeida., Vieira, Sara Silveira. Chemical composition and toxicity of essential oils to the green-aphid Schizaphis graminum (Rondani, 1852) . Arquivos do instituto biologico sao paulo, 2014, vol. 81, no. 1, p. 22-29.
Marques, Marcia O. M., Yoshida, Massayoshi. Structure of propacin. Quimica nova, 1990, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 245-6.
Yamaguchi, Mirian Ueda., Garcia, Francielle Pelegrin., Garcia Cortez, Diogenes Aparicio., Ueda-Nakamura, Tania., Dias Filho, Benedito Prado., Nakamura, Celso Vataru. Antifungal effects of Ellagitannin isolated from leaves of Ocotea odorifera (Lauraceae) . Antonie van leeuwenhoek international journal of general and molecular microbiology, 2011, vol. 99, no. 3, p. 507-514. DOI

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