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Picea mariana

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements for Picea mariana. 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: Picea mariana (Mill.) Britton Sterns & Poggenb

7Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

7Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 7 licensed products naming Picea mariana 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

Branch bark
Branch(es)
Leaf
Needles
Trunk bark

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
(-)-camphor	Aerial part of plants	—	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Lignans	Wood	Solvent extraction	25 Milligram/litre	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Bark	Essential oil	≥ 1.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	—	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Bark	Essential oil	≤ 1.7 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Camphor	Leaves	Essential oil	1 Percent	—	No resolvable identifier
Myrcene	Leaves	Essential oil	3.5 Percent	—	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.

Francezon, Nellie., Stevanovic, Tatjana. Chemical Composition of Essential Oil and Hydrosol from Picea mariana Bark Residue. Bioresources, 2017, vol. 12, no. 2, p. 2635-2645. DOI
Turgeon, JJ., Brockerhoff, EG., Lombardo, DA., MacDonald, L., Grant, GG. Differences in composition and release rate of volatiles emitted by black spruce seed cones sampled in situ versus ex situ. Canadian journal of forest research, 1998, vol. 28, no. 2, p. 311-316. DOI
Shaw, A. C. Essential oil of Picea mariana. Canadian journal of research, section b: chemical sciences, 1950, vol. 28B, p. 268-76.
O'Connor, B.I., Kovacs, T.G., Voss, R.H. The effect of wood species composition on the toxicity of simulated mechanical pulping effluents. Environmental toxicology and chemistry, 1992, vol. 11, no. 9, p. 1259-1270. 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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