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Smilax ornata

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 3 constituent measurements for Smilax ornata. 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: Smilax ornata Lem.

3Constituent measurements
0Safety records
2Cited sources
4Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

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 Smilax ornata 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

  • Root

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • Steroidal saponins2
  • Parillin1

Plant parts

  • Roots and other underground parts2
  • Unspecified1

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction2

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.

SubstancePlant partPreparationConcentrationAnalytical methodSource
ParillinRoots and other underground partsSolvent extractionHPLC with standard detection methodsResolve DOI
Steroidal saponinsRoots and other underground partsSolvent extractionHPLC with standard detection methodsResolve DOI
Steroidal saponinsUnspecifiedUnspecifiedNo 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.

  1. Challinor, Victoria L., Parsons, Peter G., Chap, Sonet., White, Eve F., Blanchfield, Joanne T., Lehmann, Reginald P., De Voss, James J. Steroidal saponins from the roots of Smilax sp.: Structure and bioactivity. STEROIDS, 2012, vol. 77, no. 5, p. 504-511. DOI
  2. Wishart, DS., Jewison, T., Guo, AC., Wilson, M., Knox, C., Liu, Y., Djoumbou, Y., Mandal, R., Aziat, F., Dong, E., Bouatra, S., Sinelnikov, I., Arndt, D., Xia, J., Liu, P., Yallou, F., Bjorndahl, T., Perez-Pineiro, R., Eisner, R., Allen, F., Neveu, V., Greiner, R., Scalbert, A. Smilagenin (HMDB30048).. Human metabolome database, 2012, vol. 3.0.

Boundary

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