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Podophyllum hexandrum

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 10 constituent measurements for Podophyllum hexandrum. 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: Podophyllum hexandrum Royle

10Constituent measurements
0Safety records
2Cited sources
1Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

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

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 1 licensed products naming Podophyllum hexandrum 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

  • Dry

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • Podophyllotoxin4
  • Deoxypodophyllotoxin2
  • Hydroxymethylfurfural1
  • Lignans1
  • Podophyllotoxin acetate1
  • Solasodine1

Plant parts

  • Roots and other underground parts10

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction10

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.

SubstancePlant partPreparationConcentrationAnalytical methodSource
DeoxypodophyllotoxinRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction≤ 24.22 PercentGC-MSResolve DOI
DeoxypodophyllotoxinRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction≥ 2.83 PercentGC-MSResolve DOI
HydroxymethylfurfuralRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction28.65 PercentGC-MSResolve DOI
LignansRoots and other underground partsSolvent extractionNuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)Resolve DOI
PodophyllotoxinRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction≤ 18.91 PercentGC-MSResolve DOI
PodophyllotoxinRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction≥ 0.47 PercentGC-MSResolve DOI
PodophyllotoxinRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction≥ 2.92 PercentGC-MSResolve DOI
PodophyllotoxinRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction≤ 21.13 PercentGC-MSResolve DOI
Podophyllotoxin acetateRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction21.13 PercentGC-MSResolve DOI
SolasodineRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction1.1 PercentGC-MSResolve 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.

  1. Dar, Sabzar Ahmad., Yousuf, Abdul Rehman., Balkhi, Masood-ul-Hassan., Ganai, Bashir Ahmad., Tantry, Mudasir., Bhat, Farooz Ahmad. Podophyllum hexandrum ameliorates endosulfan-induced genotoxicity and mutagenicity in freshwater cyprinid fish crucian carp . Pharmaceutical biology, 2017, vol. 55, no. 1, p. 173-183. DOI
  2. Sun, Yan-Jun., Li, Zhan-Lin., Chen, Hong., Liu, Xiao-Qiu., Zhou, Wei., Hua, Hui-Ming. Three new cytotoxic aryltetralin lignans from Sinopodophyllum emodi. Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 2011, vol. 21, no. 12, p. 3794-3797. DOI

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