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Operculina turpethum

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 18 constituent measurements for Operculina turpethum. 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: Operculina turpethum (L.) Silva Manso

18Constituent measurements

0Safety records

6Cited sources

10Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Ipomoea turpethum (L.) R.Br.

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 10 licensed products naming Operculina turpethum 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

Source material stated

Root
Whole plant

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
Coumarin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	0.34 Milligram/millilitre	HPLC-UV	Resolve DOI
Coumarins	Seed	—	≥ 0.061 Percent	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Coumarins	Roots and other underground parts	—	≥ 0.212 Percent	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Coumarins	Roots and other underground parts	—	≤ 0.271 Percent	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Coumarins	Seed	—	≤ 0.21 Percent	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Gallic acid	Leaves	Solvent extraction	0.15 Milligram/millilitre	HPLC-UV	Resolve DOI
Salicylic acid	Leaves	Solvent extraction	0.28 Milligram/millilitre	HPLC-UV	Resolve DOI
Salicylic acid	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Saponins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Scopoletin	Live plants	—	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	—	No resolvable identifier
Cardiac glycosides	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	—	No resolvable identifier
N-p-coumaroyltyramine	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Salicylic acid	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	—	No resolvable identifier
Spinasterol	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Steroidal glycosides	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	—	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.

Gupta, Shweta., Ved, Akash. Operculina turpethum (Linn.) Silva Manso as a Medicinal Plant Species: A Review on Bioactive Components and Pharmacological Properties. . Pharmacognosy reviews, 2017, vol. 11, no. 22, p. 158-166. DOI
Jalaj, Anju Vijayakumari., Radhamany, Puthuparampil Madhavan. IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS FROM OPERCULINA TURPETHUM (L.) SILVA MANSO LEAF BY HPLC METHOD . International journal of pharmaceutical sciences and research, 2016, vol. 7, no. 4, p. 1656-1661. DOI
Sharma, V., Singh, M. Comparative analysis of the phytochemicals present in different extracts of Operculina turpethum. International journal of drug development and research, 2013, vol. 5, no. 2, p. 244-250.
Harun-Or-Rashid, Md., Abdul Gafur, Md., Sarker, Md. Moklesur Rahman., Karim, Nurul. A spinasteryl glycoside from Ipomoea Turpethum L. herb (STEM) growing in Bangladesh. Journal of bangladesh academy of sciences, 2012, vol. 36, no. 1, p. 13-17.
Sharma, V., Singh, M. Potential recovery from hepatotoxicity by Operculina turpethum and its isolated stigma-5,22dien-3-O-B-D-glucopyranoside against N- nitrosodimethylamine, a potent carcinogen in animal model. International journal of pharma and bio sciences, 2014, vol. 5, no. 2, p. P271-P284.
Ding, Wenbing., Zeng, Fanli., Xu, Liangxiong., Chen, Yunyun., Wang, Yifei., Wei, Xiaoyi. Bioactive Dammarane-Type Saponins from Operculina turpethum. Journal of natural products, 2011, vol. 74, no. 9, p. 1868-1874. DOI

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