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Santalum album

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 4 constituent measurements for Santalum album. 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: Santalum album L.

4Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

94Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 94 licensed products naming Santalum album 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
decoction

Source material stated

Bark
Heartwood - trunk
Santalum album - Wood
Stem heartwood
Stem wood
Stem(s)
Wood
root wood

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
Alpha-thujone	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	4.23 Microgram/kilogram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Asarone	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	0.084 Microgram/kilogram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Eugenol	Wood	Essential oil	4.8 Percent	LC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Lignans	Wood	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	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.

Matsuo, Yukiko., Mimaki, Yoshihiro. Lignans from Santalum album and Their Cytotoxic Activities. CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN, 2010, vol. 58, no. 4, p. 587-590.
Jo, Jung Ok., Kim, Sun Min., Kim, Kyong Su. Analysis of asarone, coumarin and thujone in medicinal plants used in brewing a Korean traditional folk wine. Han'guk nonghwa hakhoechi, 1999, p. 210-217.
Kim, Junheon., Jang, Miyeon., Shin, Eunsik., Kim, Jeongmin., Lee, Si Hyeock., Park, Chung Gyoo. Fumigant and contact toxicity of 22 wooden essential oils and their major components against Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, 2016.

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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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