Botanical species · safety record

Torreya grandis

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 4 constituent measurements for Torreya grandis. 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: Torreya grandis var. fargesii (Franch.) Silba

4Constituent measurements
0Safety records
2Cited sources
2Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

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

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 2 licensed products naming Torreya grandis 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

  • Dry

Source material stated

  • Seed(s)

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • Myrcene2
  • Camphor1
  • Carvone1

Plant parts

  • Aril4

Preparations

  • Essential oil2
  • Solvent extraction1
  • Super-critical gas extraction1

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.

SubstancePlant partPreparationConcentrationAnalytical methodSource
CamphorArilEssential oilGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
CarvoneArilEssential oil1.5 PercentGC-FIDNo resolvable identifier
MyrceneArilSolvent extraction3.6 PercentGC-FIDNo resolvable identifier
MyrceneArilSuper-critical gas extraction2.3 PercentGC-FIDNo 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.

  1. Niu, Liying., Bao, Jianfeng., Zhao, Lei., Zhang, Ying. Odor Properties and Volatile Compounds Analysis of Torreya grandis Aril Extracts . Journal of essential oil research, 2011, vol. 23, no. 4, p. 1-6.
  2. Yu, Xiangyu., Li, Ping., Dong, Xiayun., Dong, Liming., Shu, Shiming. Aril structure and its aromatic oil in Torreya grandis Fort. ex Lindl. Hangzhou daxue xuebao, ziran kexueban, 1986, p. 347-351.

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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