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Turnera diffusa

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 11 constituent measurements for Turnera diffusa. 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: Turnera diffusa Willd. ex Schult.

11Constituent measurements

0Safety records

5Cited sources

272Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 272 licensed products naming Turnera diffusa 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
Extract Type TBA
fluid

Source material stated

Aged bark
Brindille feuillue
Dried leaves, flowers and young sections of stem collected at flowering time
Fruit extract
Grass(es)
Leaf
Leaf and stem
Leaf blade

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	Unspecified	Essential oil	11.4 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	2.79 Percent Area	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	1.846 Percent Area	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Cyanogenic glycosides	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Cyanogenic glycosides	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Pinocarvone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	1.34 Percent Area	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Saponins	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Tannins	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Tannins	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	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.

Alcaraz-Melendez, L., Delgado-Rodriguez, J., Real-Cosio, S. Analysis of essential oils from wild and micropropagated plants of damiana (Turnera diffusa) . Fitoterapia, 2004, vol. 75, no. 7-8, p. 696-701. DOI
Kumar, S., Taneja, R., Sharma, A. Pharmacognostic standardization of Turnera aphrodisiaca Ward. Journal of medicinal food, 2006, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 254-260. DOI
Steinmetz, E. F. Damianae folia. Acta phytotherapeut., 1960, p. 1-2.
Godoi, AFL., Vilegas, W., Godoi, RHM., Van Vaeck, L., Van Grieken, R. Application of low-pressure gas chromatography-ion-trap mass spectrometry to the analysis of the essential oil of Turnera diffusa (Ward.) Urb.. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A, 2004, vol. 1027, no. 1-2, p. 127-130. DOI
Kumar, S., Taneja, R., Sharma, A. The genus Turnera: A review update. Pharmaceutical Biology, 2005, vol. 43, no. 5, p. 383-391. 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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