Botanical species · safety record

Swertia chirayita

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 3 constituent measurements for Swertia chirayita. 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: Swertia chirayita (Roxb.) H.Karst.

3Constituent measurements

0Safety records

1Cited sources

8Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 8 licensed products naming Swertia chirayita 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

Herb
Whole plant

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
Alkaloids	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	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.

Tewari, Devesh., Sah, Archana. N., Mangal, Anupam K., Tripathi, Y. C. HPTLC Fingerprinting of Swertia chirayita (Roxb. ex Fleming) Karsten from High Altitude Area of Western Himalaya. Analytical chemistry letters, 2015, p. 251-259.

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