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Scurrula parasitica

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 4 constituent measurements for Scurrula parasitica. 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: Scurrula parasitica L.

4Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

4Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Taxillus parasiticus (L.) S.T. Chiu
Loranthus parasiticus (L.) Merr.

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 4 licensed products naming Scurrula parasitica 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

Extract Type TBA

Source material stated

Leafy twig extract
Leafy twigs

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
Cardiac glycosides	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Sesquiterpene lactones	Unspecified	—	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Piperidine alkaloids	Leaves	Solvent extraction	1.22 Milligram/gram	HPLC-FD	No resolvable identifier
Piperidine alkaloids	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	0.43 Milligram/gram	HPLC-FD	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.

Liu, Quan-Yu., Wang, Fei., Zhang, Lei., Xie, Jie-Ming., Li, Peng., Zhang, Yong-Hong. A Hydroxylated Lupeol-Based Triterpenoid Ester Isolated from the Scurrula parasitica Parasitic on Nerium indicum . Helvetica chimica acta, 2015, vol. 98, no. 5, p. 627-632. DOI
Hu, Kefei., Li, Yonghua., Du, Yukai., Su, Benwei., Lu, Dong. Analysis of 1-deoxynojirimycin component correlation between medicinal parasitic loranthus from Loranthaceae and their mulberry host trees. Journal of medicinal plants research, 2011, p. 4326-4331.
Moghadamtousi, Soheil Zorofchian., Kamarudin, Muhamad Noor Alfarizal., Chan, Chim Kei., Goh, Bey Hing., Kadir, Habsah Abdul. Phytochemistry and Biology of Loranthus parasiticus Merr, a Commonly Used Herbal Medicine . American journal of chinese medicine, 2014, vol. 42, no. 1, p. 23-35. DOI

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