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Quillaja saponaria

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 3 constituent measurements for Quillaja saponaria. 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: Quillaja saponaria Molina

3Constituent measurements

0Safety records

2Cited sources

5Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Quillaja smegmadermos DC.

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 5 licensed products naming Quillaja saponaria 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.

Source material stated

Bark

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
Saponins	Bark	Solvent extraction	—	Chromatographic tests	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Live plants	—	≤ 5 Percent	—	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Live plants	—	≥ 0.1 Percent	—	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.

KENSIL, CR., PATEL, U., LENNICK, M., MARCIANI, D. SEPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SAPONINS WITH ADJUVANT ACTIVITY FROM QUILLAJA-SAPONARIA MOLINA CORTEX . Journal of immunology, 1991, vol. 146, no. 2, p. 431-437.
George, A.J. Legal status and toxicity of saponins. Food and cosmetics toxicology, 1965, vol. 3, no. C, p. 85-91.

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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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