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Sesbania sesban

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 2 constituent measurements and 4 adverse-effect records for Sesbania sesban. 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: Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr.

2Constituent measurements

4Safety records

3Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Sesbania aegyptiaca Poir.

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

No Health Canada licensed natural health product in the snapshot names this species as a medicinal ingredient under this exact binomial. Absence here means absence from this one register under this one name, not absence from trade, and not a safety verdict.

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

Target tissues

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
Canavanine	Leaves	Solvent extraction	0.3 Gram/kilogram	Fluorimetry, Nephelometry and Polarimetry	Resolve DOI
Saponins	Leaves	Solvent extraction	4.55 Percent	Unspecified	Resolve DOI

Recorded adverse effects

Adverse effects reported in the source literature, most often in animal or laboratory models at a stated preparation and dose.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Digestive	Stomach	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	In vitro	Resolve DOI
Reproductive	Urogenital	Leaves	Drying (dehydration)	Sheep (as animal)	Reproduction toxicity	Resolve DOI
Reproductive	Urogenital	Leaves	Drying (dehydration)	Sheep (as animal)	Reproduction toxicity	Resolve DOI
Systemic	Digestive	Leaves	—	Gallus gallus (chicken) (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	Resolve DOI

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.

Melaku, S., Peters, K.J., Tegegne, A. Feed intake, live weight gain and reproductive performance of Menz ewes supplemented with Lablab purpureus, graded levels of Leucaena pallida 14203 and Sesbania sesban 1198. Livestock production science, 2004, vol. 87, no. 2-3, p. 131-142. DOI
Hussein, L., El-Fouly, M.M., El-Baz, F.K., Ghanem, S.A. Nutritional quality and the presence of anti-nutritional factors in leaf protein concentrates (LPC). International journal of food sciences and nutrition, 1999, vol. 50, no. 5, p. 333-343. DOI
Shqueir, A.A., Brown, D.L., Klasing, K.C. Canavanine content and toxicity of sesbania leaf meal for growing chicks. Animal feed science and technology, 1989, vol. 25, no. 1-2, p. 137-147. DOI

Boundary

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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