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Stellaria media

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 11 constituent measurements and 2 adverse-effect records for Stellaria media. 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: Stellaria media (L.) Vill.

11Constituent measurements

2Safety records

5Cited sources

86Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 86 licensed products naming Stellaria media 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

Source material stated

Aerial parts
Flower
Flowers and leaves
Fresh above ground parts
Grass(es)
Herb
Herb top
Herb(s)

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
Cardiac glycosides	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Formononetin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	11.19 Nanogram/gram	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Genistein	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	51.8 Nanogram/gram	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Genistin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	991.54 Nanogram/gram	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Glycitein	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	4.6 Nanogram/gram	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Ononin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	122.85 Nanogram/gram	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Oxalic acid	Leaves	Drying (dehydration)	370 Milligram/100 gram	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	Resolve DOI
Saponins	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Scopoletin	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	0.21 Microgram/gram	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Sophoricoside	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	266.36 Nanogram/gram	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Anthraquinones	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	No resolvable identifier

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	Aerial part of plants	—	—	In vitro	Resolve DOI
Digestive	Digestive	Aerial part of plants	—	—	In vitro	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.

Guil, JL., Rodriguez-Garcia, I., Torija, E. Nutritional and toxic factors in selected wild edible plants. PLANT FOODS FOR HUMAN NUTRITION, 1997, vol. 51, no. 2, p. 99-107. DOI
Shah, Naseer Ali., Khan, Muhammad Rashid., Nadhman, Akhtar. Antileishmanial, toxicity, and phytochemical evaluation of medicinal plants collected from Pakistan. . Biomed research international, 2014, vol. 2014, p. 384204-384204. DOI
Miksatkova, Petra., Ancheeva, Elena., Hejtmankova, Katerina., Teslov, Leonid., Lapcik, Oldrich. DETERMINATION OF FLAVONOIDS IN STELLARIA BY HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY. ANALYTICAL LETTERS, 2014, vol. 47, no. 14, p. 2317-2331. DOI
Huang, Yuan., Dong, Qi., Qiao, Shan-Yi. Chemical constituents from Stellaria media. Jiefangjun Yaoxue Xuebao, 2007, p. 185-187.
Rani, Neerja., Vasudeva, Neeru., Sharma, Surendra Kumar. Quality assessment and anti-obesity activity of Stellaria media (Linn.) Vill . Bmc complementary and alternative medicine, 2012, vol. 12. 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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