Botanical species · safety record

Prunus serotina

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 6 constituent measurements and 2 adverse-effect records for Prunus serotina. 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 serotina Ehrh.

6Constituent measurements

2Safety records

4Cited sources

107Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 107 licensed products naming Prunus serotina 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

Aged bark
Bark
Bark (trunk)
Bark extract
Branch bark
Dried Inner Bark
Edible fruit part
Fruit

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

Target tissues

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
Amygdalin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≤ 20.95 Milligram/gram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Amygdalin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.72 Milligram/gram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Prunasin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≥ 9.71 Milligram/gram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Prunasin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≤ 59.49 Milligram/gram	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Amygdalin	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Prunasin	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	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
Digestive	Stomach	Leaves	—	Goat (as animal)	Case report	No resolvable identifier
Musclo-skeletal	Lung	Leaves	—	Goat (as animal)	Case report	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.

GOUGH, JF. BLACK-CHERRY POISONING IN AN ANGORA-GOAT. Canadian veterinary journal-revue veterinaire canadienne, 1995, vol. 36, no. 1, p. 45-45.
Santos Pimenta, Lucia P., Schilthuizen, Menno., Verpoorte, Robert., Choi, Young Hae. Quantitative Analysis of Amygdalin and Prunasin in Prunus serotina Ehrh. using H-1-NMR Spectroscopy . Phytochemical analysis, 2014, vol. 25, no. 2, p. 122-126. DOI
Kuroki, Gary., Lizotte, Pauline A., Poulton, Jonathan E. Catabolism of (R)-amygdalin and (R)-vicianin by partially purified beta-glycosidases from Prunus serotina Ehrh. and Davallia trichomanoides.. zeitschrift fuer naturforschung, c: journal of biosciences, 1984, vol. 39C, no. 3-4, p. 232-9.
Radi, ZA., Styer, EL., Thompson, LJ. Prunus spp. intoxication in ruminants: a case in a goat and diagnosis by identification of leaf fragments in rumen contents . Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation, 2004, vol. 16, no. 6, p. 593-599.

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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