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Prunus avium

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 2 constituent measurements and 1 adverse-effect record for Prunus avium. 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: Prunus avium (L.) L.

2Constituent measurements
1Safety records
3Cited sources
119Licensed 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 119 licensed products naming Prunus avium 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
  • Fresh

Source material stated

  • Fruit
  • Fruit Juice
  • Fruit flesh
  • Peduncle
  • Peduncle (fruit)
  • Prunus avium
  • Prunus avium - fruit
  • Stem

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • Genistin1
  • Isoflavones1

Plant parts

  • Fruit unspecified1
  • Stem1
  • Unspecified1
  • stalk1

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction2

Effect types

  • Systemic1

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
GenistinUnspecifiedUnspecifiedNo resolvable identifier
IsoflavonesStem / stalkSolvent extractionHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)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.

EffectTarget tissuePlant partPreparationTest organismTest typeSource
SystemicFruit unspecifiedSolvent extractionHouse mouse (as animal)Short-term toxicityNo 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.

  1. Sisodia, R., Sharma, K.V., Singh, S. Acute toxicity effects of prunus avium fruit extract and selection of optimum dose against radiation exposure. Journal of environmental pathology, toxicology and oncology, 2009, vol. 28, no. 4, p. 303-309.
  2. Wishart, DS., Jewison, T., Guo, AC., Wilson, M., Knox, C., Liu, Y., Djoumbou, Y., Mandal, R., Aziat, F., Dong, E., Bouatra, S., Sinelnikov, I., Arndt, D., Xia, J., Liu, P., Yallou, F., Bjorndahl, T., Perez-Pineiro, R., Eisner, R., Allen, F., Neveu, V., Greiner, R., Scalbert, A. Genistin (HMDB33988).. Human metabolome database, 2012, vol. 3.0.
  3. Repasi, J., Frank, L. Analytic and biological standardization of Prunus avium extracts .. Acta pharmaceutica hungarica, 1992, vol. 62, no. 4, p. 172-81.

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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