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Piper aduncum

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 43 constituent measurements for Piper aduncum. 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: Piper aduncum L.

43Constituent measurements

0Safety records

8Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

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
(e)-isoelemicin	Leaves	Essential oil	1.4 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	1.3 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 3 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 40.5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Apiole	Leaves	Essential oil	0.38 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Dillapiole	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Dillapiole	Leaves	Essential oil	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Dillapiole	Leaves	Essential oil	94.84 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Dillapiole	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 49.5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Dillapiole	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 0.17 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Dillapiole	Leaves	Essential oil	53.6 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Dillapiole	Leaves	Essential oil	0.079 Gram/litre	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Dillapiole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 97.3 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Dillapiole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 31.5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Dillapiole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	45.92 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
L-piperitone	Leaves	Essential oil	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
L-piperitone	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 24.91 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
L-piperitone	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 10.97 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
L-piperitone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 15.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
L-piperitone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 1.6 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
L-piperitone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	8.47 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.4 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 1.3 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 0.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 0.6 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 1.71 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 2.3 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myristicin	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.3 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myristicin	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 2 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myristicin	Leaves	Essential oil	24.3 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myristicin	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 2.88 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myristicin	Leaves	Essential oil	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myristicin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Phenylpropenoids	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 15.8 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Phenylpropenoids	Leaves	Essential oil	1.91 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Phenylpropenoids	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 3.96 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Phenylpropenoids	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 12.9 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Phenylpropenoids	Leaves	Essential oil	11.9 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Safrole	Leaves	Essential oil	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Safrole	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI

40 of 43 records are shown, ordered so that records carrying a resolvable reference come first.

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.

Potzernheim, Miriam C. L., Bizzo, Humberto R., Silva, Joseane P., Vieira, Roberto F. Chemical characterization of essential oil constituents of four populations of Piper aduncum L. from Distrito Federal, Brazil . Biochemical systematics and ecology, 2012, vol. 42, p. 25-31. DOI
Sanini, Cristina., Massarolli, Angelica., Krinski, Diones., Butnariu, Alessandra Regina. Essential oil of spiked pepper, Piper aduncum L. (Piperaceae), for the control of caterpillar soybean looper, Chrysodeixis includens Walker (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) . Brazilian journal of botany, 2017, vol. 40, no. 2, p. 399-404. DOI
Guerrini, Alessandra., Sacchetti, Gianni., Rossi, Damiano., Paganetto, Guglielmo., Muzzoli, Mariavittoria., Andreotti, Elisa., Tognolini, Massimiliano., Maldonado, Maria E., Bruni, Renato. Bioactivities of Piper aduncum L. and Piper obliquum Ruiz & Pavon (Piperaceae) essential oils from Eastern Ecuador . Environmental toxicology and pharmacology, 2009, vol. 27, no. 1, p. 39-48. DOI
Vila, R., Tomi, M., Mundina, M., Santana, AI., Solis, PN., Arce, JBL., Iclina, JLB., Iglesias, J., Gupta, MP., Casanova, J., Canigueral, S. Unusual composition of the essential oils from the leaves of Piper aduncum . Flavour and fragrance journal, 2005, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 67-69. DOI
Maia, JGS., Zohhbi, MDB., Andrade, EHA., Santos, AS., da Silva, MHL., Luz, AIR., Bastos, CN. Constituents of the essential oil of Piper aduncum L. growing wild in the Amazon region . Flavour and fragrance journal, 1998, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 269-272. DOI
Parmar, V.S., Jain, S.C., Gupta, S., Talwar, S., Rajwanshi, V.K., Kumar, R., Azim, A., Malhotra, S., Kumar, N., Jain, R., Sharma, N.K., Tyagi, O.D., Lawrie, S.J., Errington, W., Howarth, O.W., Olsen, C.E., Singh, S.K., Wengel, J. Polyphenols and alkaloids from piper species. Phytochemistry, 1998, vol. 49, no. 4, p. 1069-1078. DOI
Silva, Wilson Castro., de Souza Martins, Joao Ricardo., Menezes de Souza, Hellen Emilia., Heinzen, Horacio., Cesio, Maria Veronica., Mato, Mauricio., Albrecht, Francine., de Azevedo, Joao Lucio., de Barros, Neiva Monteiro. Toxicity of Piper aduncum L. (Piperales: Piperaceae) from the Amazon forest for the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) . Veterinary parasitology, 2009, vol. 164, no. 2-4, p. 267-274. DOI
Araujo, Mario J. C., Camara, Claudio A. G., Born, Flavia S., Moraes, Marcilio M., Badji, Cesar A. Acaricidal activity and repellency of essential oil from Piper aduncum and its components against Tetranychus urticae . Experimental and applied acarology, 2012, vol. 57, no. 2, p. 139-155. DOI

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