Botanical species · safety record

Pistacia lentiscus

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements, 1 adverse-effect record and 2 genotoxicity assays for Pistacia lentiscus. 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: Pistacia lentiscus L.

7Constituent measurements

3Safety records

6Cited sources

25Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 25 licensed products naming Pistacia lentiscus 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

Source material stated

Gum
Gum resin
Gum-resin
Sap
Stem bark resin
Whole plant

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

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
Gallic acid	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 57.59 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.67 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Saponins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Tannins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Leaves	Solvent extraction	2.04 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Myrcene	Leaves	Solvent extraction	1.12 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier

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
Systemic	—	Seed	Solvent extraction	House mouse (as animal)	Acute toxicity	Resolve DOI

Genotoxicity testing

Outcomes of genotoxicity assays as recorded in the source. A negative assay is a result under those test conditions, not a clearance.

Outcome	Endpoint	Test	Tested organism	Metabolic activation	Source
Ambiguous	—	bacterial gene mutation assay	Escherichia coli (as organism)	With and without	Resolve DOI
Ambiguous	gene mutation	bacterial reverse mutation assay	Salmonella typhimurium (as organism)	—	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.

Buriani, Alessandro., Fortinguerra, Stefano., Sorrenti, Vincenzo., Dall'Acqua, Stefano., Innocenti, Gabbriella., Montopoli, Monica., Gabbia, Daniela., Carrara, Maria. Human Adenocarcinoma Cell Line Sensitivity to Essential Oil Phytocomplexes from Pistacia Species: a Multivariate Approach . Molecules, 2017, vol. 22, no. 8. DOI
Villar, A., Sanz, M.J., Paya, M. Hypotensive effect of pistacia lentiscus l. Pharmaceutical biology, 1987, vol. 25, no. 1, p. 1-3. DOI
Bachrouch, Olfa., Jemaa, Jouda Mediouni-Ben., Talou, Thierry., Marzouk, Brahim., Abderraba, Manef. Fumigant toxicity of Pistacia lentiscus essential oil against Tribolium castaneum and Lasioderma serricorne . Bulletin of insectology, 2010, vol. 63, no. 1, p. 129-135.
Bhouri, Wissem., Derbel, Safa., Skandrani, Ines., Boubaker, Jihed., Bouhlel, Ines., Sghaier, Mohamed B., Kilani, Soumaya., Mariotte, Anne M., Dijoux-Franca, Marie G., Ghedira, Kamel., Chekir-Ghedira, Leila. Study of genotoxic, antigenotoxic and antioxidant activities of the digallic acid isolated from Pistacia lentiscus fruits . Toxicology in vitro, 2010, vol. 24, no. 2, p. 509-515. DOI
Alkofahi, A., Al-Khalil, S. Mutagenic and toxic activity of some Jordanian medicinal plants. International journal of pharmacognosy, 1995, vol. 33, no. 1, p. 61-64.
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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