Botanical species · safety record

Thymbra capitata

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 8 constituent measurements for Thymbra capitata. 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: Thymbra capitata (L.) Cav.

8Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Coridothymus capitatus (L.) Rchb.f.

Synonyms are carried from the source compendium. A species may be traded and studied under more than one name, which is exactly how a safety record gets lost.

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	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 0.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 1.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Camphor	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 0.1 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Camphor	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 1.1 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Unspecified	Essential oil	≤ 2.02 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Unspecified	Essential oil	≥ 1.11 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 3.2 Percent Area	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 0.3 Percent Area	GC-MS	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.

Iriti, M., Vitalini, S., Apostolides, N. Arnold., El Beyrouthy, M. Chemical composition and antiradical capacity of essential oils from Lebanese medicinal plants. JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL RESEARCH, 2014, vol. 26, no. 6, p. 466-472. DOI
Ali, Imen Ben El Hadj., Guetat, Arbi., Boussaid, Mohamed. Variation of Volatiles in Tunisian Populations of Thymbra capitata (L.) CAV. (Lamiaceae). CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY, 2012, vol. 9, no. 7, p. 1272-1285. DOI
Miceli, A., Negro, C., Tommasi, L. Essential oil variability in Thymbra capitata (L.) Cav. growing wild in Southern Apulia (Italy). BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY, 2006, vol. 34, no. 6, p. 528-535. 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.

Continue

Independent literature