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Sambucus nigra

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 5 constituent measurements for Sambucus nigra. 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: Sambucus nigra L.

5Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

289Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 289 licensed products naming Sambucus nigra 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
fluid

Source material stated

Berries
Berry
Berry (standardized extract)
Berry extract
Berry juice
Berry/Berries
Blossoms
Buds

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

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
Isoflavonoids	Unspecified	—	0.6 Percent	LC-MS	Resolve DOI
Lignans	Unspecified	—	1.3 Percent	LC-MS	Resolve DOI
Lignans	Unspecified	—	2.6 Percent	LC-MS	Resolve DOI
Prunasin	Fruit unspecified	—	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Lectins	Bark	—	—	Gel electrophoresis	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.

Jimenez, Pilar., Jose Gayoso, Manuel., Garrosa, Manuel., Cordoba-Diaz, Damian., Cabrero, Patricia., Tejero, Jesus., Aracil, Monica., Girbes, Tomas. Paneth cells are also target of the ribotoxic lectin nigrin b. Histology and histopathology, 2014, vol. 29, no. 8, p. 1057-1063.
Schr�der, L., Richter, D.U., Piechulla, B., Chrobak, M., Kuhn, C., Schulze, S., Abarzua, S., Jeschke, U., Weissenbacher, T. Effects of phytoestrogen extracts isolated from elder flower on hormone production and receptor expression of trophoblast tumor cells JEG-3 and BeWo, as well as MCF7 breast cancer cells. Nutrients, 2016, vol. 8, no. 10. DOI
Bradberry, S., Vale, A. Plants. Medicine, 2007, vol. 35, no. 12, p. 649-651. DOI

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