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Onosma echioides

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements for Onosma echioides. 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: Onosma echioides (L.) L.

7Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited 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
Naphthoquinones	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.24 Milligram/kilogram	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Naphthoquinones	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Naphthoquinones	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	62.4 Percent	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Naphthoquinones	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.02 Milligram/kilogram	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Alkannin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	8.93 Percent	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Alkannin	Bark	Solvent extraction	19.41 Percent	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Alkannin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	2.52 Percent	Unspecified	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.

Sagratini, Gianni., Cristalli, Gloria., Giardina, Dario., Gioventu, Giorgio., Maggi, Filippo., Ricciutelli, Massimo., Vittori, Sauro. Alkannin/shikonin mixture from roots of Onosma echioides (L.) L.: Extraction method study and quantification. JOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE, 2008, vol. 31, no. 6-7, p. 945-952. DOI
Boldyrev, N. N. A Soviet alkannin. Farmatsiya (moscow, 1938-47), 1939, p. 24-25.
Nikita, Gawand., Vivek, Purnima., Chhaya, Gadgoli. Wound-healing activity of an oligomer of alkannin/shikonin, isolated from root bark of Onosma echioides . Natural product research, 2015, vol. 29, no. 16, p. 1584-1588. DOI

Boundary

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