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Rehmannia glutinosa

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 4 constituent measurements for Rehmannia glutinosa. 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: Rehmannia glutinosa (Gaertn.) DC.

4Constituent measurements
0Safety records
1Cited sources
2,190Licensed 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 2,190 licensed products naming Rehmannia glutinosa 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
  • Extract Type TBA
  • Fresh
  • decoction
  • fluid
  • solid

Source material stated

  • Dried root tuber
  • Dried root(s)
  • Fresh root(s)
  • New material
  • Prepared root
  • Radix
  • Rehmannia glutinosa (cooked in wine)
  • Rhizome

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • Alpha-cedrol1
  • Ascaridol1
  • Miscellaneous phenolic compounds1
  • Phorbol1

Plant parts

  • Roots and other underground parts4

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction4

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
Alpha-cedrolRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction—High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
AscaridolRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction—High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
Miscellaneous phenolic compoundsRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction—High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
PhorbolRoots and other underground partsSolvent extraction—High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve 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. Zhu, Lan-Fang., Zhang, Zi-Guan., Lin, Wen-Xiong., Li, Zhen-Fang., Yang, Yan-Qiu., Xie, Dong-Feng. Identification of Autotoxic Compounds in Fibrous Roots of Rehmannia (Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch.) . Figshare, 2012 . DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028806.s001. DOI

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