Botanical species · safety record

Opuntia ficus-indica

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 2 adverse-effect records for Opuntia ficus-indica. 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: Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill.

0Constituent measurements

2Safety records

2Cited sources

141Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 141 licensed products naming Opuntia ficus-indica 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
Fresh

Source material stated

Buds
Buds; Leaves
Fruit
Fruit flesh
Fruit skin
Fruit(s)
Leaf
Leaf bud

What the records describe

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

Recorded adverse effects

Adverse effects reported in the source literature, most often in animal or laboratory models at a stated preparation and dose.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Not reported	—	Seed	Solvent extraction	House mouse (as animal)	Acute toxicity	Resolve DOI
Systemic	—	Aerial part of plants	—	Goat (as animal)	Case report	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.

Assis, Tales S., Medeiros, Rosane M. T., Riet-Correa, Franklin., Galiza, Glauco J. N., Dantas, Antonio F. M., Oliveira, Diego M. Plant poisonings diagnosed in ruminants and horses and estimation of the economical losses in Paraiba . Pesquisa veterinaria brasileira, 2010, vol. 30, no. 1, p. 13-20.
Boukeloua, A., Belkhiri, A., Djerrou, Z., Bahri, L., Boulebda, N., Pacha, Y. Hamdi. ACUTE TOXICITY OF OPUNTIA FICUS INDICA AND PISTACIA LENTISCUS SEED OILS IN MICE. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF TRADITIONAL COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES, 2012, vol. 9, no. 4, p. 607-611. 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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