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Tanacetum balsamita

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 35 constituent measurements for Tanacetum balsamita. 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: Tanacetum balsamita L.

35Constituent measurements

0Safety records

6Cited 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

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
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	3.42 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alpha-thujone	Flower	Essential oil	≤ 10.78 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alpha-thujone	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 10.79 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alpha-thujone	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 16.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alpha-thujone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	11.7 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alpha-thujone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	15.61 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alpha-thujone	Flower	Essential oil	≥ 9.04 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Beta-thujone	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 2.21 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Beta-thujone	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 1.09 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Beta-thujone	Flower	Essential oil	≤ 1.06 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Beta-thujone	Flower	Essential oil	≥ 1.03 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Beta-thujone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	2.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Beta-thujone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	1.2 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Carvone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	43.54 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Carvone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	52.4 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Carvone	Flower	Essential oil	≥ 59.5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Carvone	Flower	Essential oil	≤ 61.67 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Carvone	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 51.83 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Carvone	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 68.01 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Pinocarvone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Sesquiterpene lactones	Flower	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	17.4 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Flower	Essential oil	16.3 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Leaves	Essential oil	19.3 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Camphor	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 2.8 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Camphor	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 9.5 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Camphor	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	33.3 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Camphor	Flower	Essential oil	31 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Camphor	Leaves	Essential oil	31.9 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Carvone-5,6-oxide	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.4 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Carvone-5,6-oxide	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 1 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 1.2 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 1.1 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Pinocarvone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 27.1 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Pinocarvone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 34.2 Percent	GC-MS	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.

Bylaite, E., Venskutonis, R., Roozen, JP., Posthumus, MA. Composition of essential oil of costmary Balsamita major (L.) Desf. at different growth phases . Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2000, vol. 48, no. 6, p. 2409-2414. DOI
TODOROVA, MN., OGNYANOV, IV. SESQUITERPENE LACTONES IN A POPULATION OF BALSAMITA-MAJOR CULTIVATED IN BULGARIA . Phytochemistry, 1989, vol. 28, no. 4, p. 1115-1117. DOI
Jaimand, K., Rezaee, MB. Chemical constituents of essential oils from Tanacetum balsamita L. ssp balsamitoides (Schultz-Bip.) Grierson. from Iran . Journal of essential oil research, 2005, vol. 17, no. 5, p. 565-566.
Gallori, S., Flamini, G., Bilia, AR., Morelli, I., Landini, A., Vincieri, FF. Chemical composition of some traditional herbal drug preparations: Essential oil and aromatic water of costmary (Balsamita suaveolens pers.) . Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2001, vol. 49, no. 12, p. 5907-5910. DOI
Baser, KHC., Demirci, B., Tabanca, N., Ozek, T., Goren, N. Composition of the essential oils of Tanacetum armenum (DC.) Schultz Bip., T. balsamita L., T. chiliophyllum (Fisch & Mey.) Schultz Bip, var. chiliophyllum and T. haradjani (Rech. fil.) Grierson and the enantiomeric distribution of camphor and carvone . Flavour and fragrance journal, 2001, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 195-200. DOI
Vaverkova, Stefani., Birosova, Lucia., Luptak, Pavol., Brazdovicova, Bronislava. Content of essential oil obtained from flowerheads in selected species of Tanacetum L. genus and identification of selected components. Herba polonica, 2008, vol. 54, no. 2, p. 22-29.

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