Botanical species · safety record

Orchis mascula

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements for Orchis mascula. 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: Orchis mascula (L.) L.

7Constituent measurements

0Safety records

2Cited sources

5Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 5 licensed products naming Orchis mascula 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.

Source material stated

Root
Tuber

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
1,8-cineole	Flower	Super-critical gas extraction	≥ 2.52 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Flower	Super-critical gas extraction	11.74 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Flower	Super-critical gas extraction	≤ 3.95 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Benzaldehyde	Flower	Super-critical gas extraction	1.55 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Flower	Super-critical gas extraction	≥ 3.88 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Flower	Super-critical gas extraction	≤ 5.23 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Flower	Super-critical gas extraction	5.01 Percent	GC-MS	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.

Dormont, L., Delle-Vedove, R., Bessiere, J-M., Schatz, B. Floral scent emitted by white and coloured morphs in orchids. Phytochemistry, 2014, vol. 100, p. 51-59. DOI
Salzmann, C. C., Cozzolino, S., Schiestl, F. P. Floral scent in food-deceptive orchids: Species specificity and sources of variability . Plant biology, 2007, vol. 9, no. 6, p. 720-729. 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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