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Schoenocaulon officinale

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 6 constituent measurements for Schoenocaulon officinale. 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: Schoenocaulon officinale (Schltdl. & Cham.) A.Gray

6Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

13Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Veratrum sabadilla Retz.

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 13 licensed products naming Schoenocaulon officinale 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

Dried grain
Dried ripe seeds
New material
Seed(s)

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
Benzofurans	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Stilbenes, stilbene derivatives	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Cevadine	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Chromatographic tests	No resolvable identifier
Steroidal alkaloids	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Veratridine	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Chromatographic tests	No resolvable identifier
Veratrum alkaloids	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Chromatographic tests	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.

Macek, Karel., Vanecek, Stanislav., Vejdelek, Zdenek J. Veratrum alkaloids. II. Paper chromatography of alkaloids from Schoenocaulon officinale and their structural analogs. Chemicke listy pro vedu a prumysl, 1955, vol. 49, p. 539-45.
Svoboda, Glenn R., Parks, Lloyd M. Sabadilla alkaloids. IV. Separation of veratridine and cevadine by partition chromatography. Journal of the american pharmaceutical association (1912-1977), 1954, vol. 43, p. 584-8.
Kanchanapoom, T., Suga, K., Kasai, R., Yamasaki, K., Kamel, MS., Mohamed, MH. Stilbene and 2-arylbenzofuran glucosides from the rhizomes of Schoenocaulon officinale . Chemical & pharmaceutical bulletin, 2002, vol. 50, no. 6, p. 863-865. DOI
STUART, DM., PARKS, LM. SABADILLA ALKALOIDS .5. VANILLOYLCEVINE. Journal of the american pharmaceutical association, 1956, vol. 45, no. 4, p. 252-256.

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