Botanical species · safety record

Spartium junceum

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 51 constituent measurements and 2 adverse-effect records for Spartium junceum. 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: Spartium junceum L.

51Constituent measurements

2Safety records

10Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

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
Alkaloids	Flower	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.42 Milligram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Flower	Solvent extraction	≤ 2.04 Milligram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Cytisine	Flower	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.24 Milligram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Cytisine	Flower	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.75 Milligram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Genistein	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Isoflavones	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	1.43 Percent	Chromatography hyphenated to element spectrometry	Resolve DOI
N-methylcytisine	Flower	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.17 Milligram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
N-methylcytisine	Flower	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.39 Milligram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Quinolizidine alkaloids	Flower	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Quinolizidine alkaloids	Flower	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.05 Milligram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Quinolizidine alkaloids	Flower	Solvent extraction	≤ 1.22 Milligram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Saponins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Seed	—	≤ 14198 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≥ 2 Percent	LC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≤ 62 Percent	LC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Seed	Solvent extraction	≥ 1.8 Percent	LC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Seed	Solvent extraction	≤ 97 Percent	LC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	—	≥ 23 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	—	≤ 109 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Seed	—	≥ 49 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Seed	—	≤ 528 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	—	≥ 7 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	—	≤ 970 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	—	≥ 248 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	—	≤ 7154 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts	—	552 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Seed	—	≥ 4425 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Ammodendrine	Aerial part of plants	—	≥ 9 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Ammodendrine	Aerial part of plants	—	≤ 36 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Anagyrine	Aerial part of plants	—	≥ 29 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Anagyrine	Aerial part of plants	—	≤ 2325 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Anagyrine	Roots and other underground parts	—	29 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Baptifoline	Aerial part of plants	—	≥ 10 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Baptifoline	Aerial part of plants	—	≤ 125 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Cytisine	Aerial part of plants	—	≥ 79 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Cytisine	Aerial part of plants	—	≤ 3183 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Cytisine	Roots and other underground parts	—	266 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Cytisine	Seed	—	≥ 4224 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Cytisine	Seed	—	≤ 12637 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Delta-5-dehydrolupanine	Aerial part of plants	—	≥ 13 Microgram/gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier

40 of 51 records are shown, ordered so that records carrying a resolvable reference come first.

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	Digestive	Flower	—	Human (as organism)	Case report	Resolve DOI
Digestive	Digestive	Seed	—	Human (as organism)	Case report	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.

GREINWALD, R., LURZ, G., WITTE, L., CZYGAN, FC. A SURVEY OF ALKALOIDS IN SPARTIUM-JUNCEUM L (GENISTEAE-FABACEAE). Zeitschrift fur naturforschung c-a journal of biosciences, 1990, vol. 45, no. 11-12, p. 1085-1089.
Riccardi, Alessandro., Frumento, Flavio., Ghinatti, Maria., Guiddo, Grazia., Lerza, Roberto. Spanish Broom flower ingestion: a very unusual poisoning. European journal of emergency medicine, 2006, vol. 13, no. 5, p. 317-318. DOI
Gimenez, Nuria., Magro, Noemi., Cortes, Nuria., Guitart, Raimon. Poisoning after Ingestion of Spartium junceum Seeds: Dose-Dependent Effects in Three Boys. . The journal of emergency medicine, 2017, vol. 53, no. 3, p. e41-e44. DOI
Martinod, Pablo., Arteaga, Martha., Alcivar, Ida. Alkaloids of genista plant (Spartium junceum). Politecnica, 1981, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 7-15.
Mayor, Y. The broom shrub ; fiber, tannin, sparteine, etc.. Revue des produits chimiques, 1941, vol. 44, p. 225-8.
Belsito, Emilia L., Chidichimo, Giuseppe., Di Gioia, Maria L., Leggio, Antonella., Liguori, Angelo., Perri, Francesca., Siciliano, Carlo. Extraction of quinolizidine alkaloids in non aqueous basic conditions: The case of Spartium junceum flowers . Chromatographia, 2008, vol. 68, no. 5-6, p. 345-349. DOI
Wink, M., Witte, L. Quinolizidine alkaloids as nitrogen source for lupine seedlings and cell cultures. Zeitschrift fuer naturforschung, c: journal of biosciences, 1985, vol. 40C(11-12), p. 767-75.
Leuner, Olga., Havlik, Jaroslav., Hummelova, Jana., Prokudina, Elena., Novy, Pavel., Kokoska, Ladislav. Distribution of isoflavones and coumestrol in neglected tropical and subtropical legumes. Journal of the science of food and agriculture, 2013, vol. 93, no. 3, p. 575-579.
BILIA, AR., FLAMMINI, F., FLAMINI, G., MORELLI, I., MARSILI, A. FLAVONOIDS AND A SAPONIN FROM SPARTIUM-JUNCEUM. Phytochemistry, 1993, vol. 34, no. 3, p. 847-852. DOI
Ozimina, I.I. Quantitative determination of flavonoids in Spartium junceum. Chemistry of natural compounds, 1985, vol. 21, no. 5, p. 590-592. 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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