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Salix alba

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 8 constituent measurements for Salix alba. 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: Salix alba L.

8Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

397Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 397 licensed products naming Salix alba 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

Source material stated

Aged bark
Bark
Bark (trunk)
Bark and buds
Bark cortex (powder)
Bark extract
Bark of branches
Bark of tree

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
Benzene-1,2-diol	Bark	Solvent extraction	≤ 5.23 Milligram/gram	Chromatographic tests	Resolve DOI
Benzene-1,2-diol	Bark	Solvent extraction	≥ 1.05 Milligram/gram	Chromatographic tests	Resolve DOI
Gluconasturtiin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Glucotropaeolin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
P-coumaric acid	Bark	Solvent extraction	—	Chromatographic tests	Resolve DOI
Proanthocyanidins (condensed tannins)	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	Resolve DOI
Sinalbin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Mass Spectroscopy and hyphenated methods without chromatography	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.

Poblocka-Olech, L., Krauze-Baranowska, M., Gl�d, D., Kawiak, A., Lojkowska, E. Chromatographic analysis of simple phenols in some species from the genus salix. Phytochemical analysis, 2010, vol. 21, no. 5, p. 463-469. DOI
Nardin, Tiziana., Piasentier, Edi., Barnaba, Chiara., Larcher, Roberto. Alkaloid profiling of herbal drugs using high resolution mass spectrometry. Drug testing and analysis, 2017, p. Ahead of Print.
Doheny-Adams, T., Redeker, K., Kittipol, V., Bancroft, I., Hartley, S. E. Development of an efficient glucosinolate extraction method. Plant methods, 2017, vol. 13. DOI
Behrens, A., Maie, N., Knicker, H., Kogel-Knabner, I. MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and PSD fragmentation as means for the analysis of condensed tannins in plant leaves and needles . Phytochemistry, 2003, vol. 62, no. 7, p. 1159-1170. DOI

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