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Panax quinquefolia

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 3 constituent measurements for Panax quinquefolia. 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: Panax quinquefolia L.

3Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Panax quinquefolius L.

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
P-coumaric acid	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Steroidal saponins	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Steroidal saponins	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	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.

Wang, XS., Kapoor, V., Smythe, GA. Extraction and chromatography-mass spectrometric analysis of the active principles from selected Chinese herbs and other medicinal plants. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CHINESE MEDICINE, 2003, vol. 31, no. 6, p. 927-944. DOI
Samimi, Raziye., Xu, William Z., Lui, Edmund M. K., Charpentier, Paul A. Isolation and Immunosuppressive Effects of 6 ''-O-Acetylginsenoside Rb-1 Extracted from North American Ginseng. PLANTA MEDICA, 2014, vol. 80, no. 6, p. 509-516. DOI
He, C.N., Gao, W.W., Yang, J.X., Bi, W., Zhang, X.S., Zhao, Y.J. Identification of autotoxic compounds from fibrous roots of Panax quinquefolium L.. Plant and Soil, 2009, vol. 318, no. 1-2, p. 63-72. 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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