Botanical species · safety record

Tanacetum vulgare

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 46 constituent measurements and 1 adverse-effect record for Tanacetum vulgare. 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 vulgare L.

46Constituent measurements

1Safety records

7Cited sources

37Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 37 licensed products naming Tanacetum vulgare 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

Aerial parts
Fresh aerial parts collected at flowering time minus stems
Herb top
Leaf

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
(-)-camphor	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 39.2 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(-)-camphor	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Flower	Solvent extraction	≤ 47.12 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Flower	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.15 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 51.4 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alpha-terthienyl	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	136 Microgram/gram	Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)	Resolve DOI
Alpha-thujone	Flower	Solvent extraction	≤ 81.87 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alpha-thujone	Flower	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.04 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alpha-thujone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 73.5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Alpha-thujone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Artemisia ketone	Flower	Solvent extraction	≤ 81.36 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Artemisia ketone	Flower	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.54 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Artemisia ketone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 71.5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Artemisia ketone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 19.8 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Beta-thujone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 95.7 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Beta-thujone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Camphor	Flower	Solvent extraction	≤ 73.02 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Camphor	Flower	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.06 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Iso-pinocamphone	Flower	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.03 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Iso-pinocamphone	Flower	Solvent extraction	≤ 19.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Flower	Solvent extraction	≤ 39.39 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Flower	Solvent extraction	≥ 1.13 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Pinocarvone	Flower	Solvent extraction	≤ 4.38 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Pinocarvone	Flower	Solvent extraction	≥ 1.06 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Umbellulone	Flower	Solvent extraction	≤ 12.18 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Umbellulone	Flower	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.03 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Verbenone	Flower	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.21 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Verbenone	Flower	Solvent extraction	≤ 3.49 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(-)-camphor	Live plants	Essential oil	≤ 1.1 Percent	GC-FID	No resolvable identifier
(-)-camphor	Live plants	Essential oil	≥ 1 Percent	GC-FID	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 32.7 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 7 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alpha-thujone	Live plants	Essential oil	≤ 1.6 Percent	GC-FID	No resolvable identifier
Alpha-thujone	Live plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.4 Percent	GC-FID	No resolvable identifier
Alpha-thujone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 71.5 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alpha-thujone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.8 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Artemisia ketone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 30.5 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Artemisia ketone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 13.1 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Beta-thujone	Live plants	Essential oil	≤ 92.2 Percent	GC-FID	No resolvable identifier

40 of 46 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
Neurotoxicity	Neurologic	Leaves	Solvent extraction	House mouse (as animal)	Acute toxicity	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.

Keskitalo, M., Pehu, E., Simon, JE. Variation in volatile compounds from tansy (Tanacetum vulgare L.) related to genetic and morphological differences of genotypes . Biochemical systematics and ecology, 2001, vol. 29, no. 3, p. 267-285. DOI
Rohloff, J., Mordal, R., Dragland, S. Chemotypical variation of tansy (Tanacetum vulgare L.) from 40 different locations in Norway . Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2004, vol. 52, no. 6, p. 1742-1748. DOI
Mockute, D., Judzentiene, A. Composition of the essential oils of Tanacetum vulgare L. growing wild in Vilnius district (Lithuania) . Journal of essential oil research, 2004, vol. 16, no. 6, p. 550-553.
Chiasson, H., Belanger, A., Bostanian, N., Vincent, C., Poliquin, A. Acaricidal properties of Artemisia absinthium and Tanacetum vulgare (Asteraceae) essential oils obtained by three methods of extraction . Journal of economic entomology, 2001, vol. 94, no. 1, p. 167-171.
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. 1-Acetoxy-4,6-tetradecadiene-8,10,12-triyne (HMDB30881). Human metabolome database, 2012.
TOSI, B., BONORA, A., DALLOLIO, G., BRUNI, A. SCREENING FOR TOXIC THIOPHENE COMPOUNDS FROM CRUDE DRUGS OF THE FAMILY COMPOSITAE USED IN NORTHERN ITALY . Phytotherapy research, 1991, vol. 5, no. 2, p. 59-62. DOI
Lahlou, Sanaa., Israili, Zafar H., Lyoussi, Badiaa. Acute and chronic toxicity of a lyophilised aqueous extract of Tanacetum vulgare leaves in rodents . Journal of ethnopharmacology, 2008, vol. 117, no. 2, p. 221-227. DOI

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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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