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Verbena officinalis

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 9 constituent measurements for Verbena officinalis. 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: Verbena officinalis L.

9Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

99Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 99 licensed products naming Verbena officinalis 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

Source material stated

Aerial parts
Flower
Flowering spikes from younger plants
Flowers
Fresh above ground parts
Herb
Herb top
Herb(s)

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
Bergapten	Leaves	Drying (dehydration)	≤ 5.5 Microgram/100 gram	HPLC-UV	Resolve DOI
Bergapten	Leaves	Drying (dehydration)	≥ 1.1 Microgram/100 gram	HPLC-UV	Resolve DOI
Esculetin	Leaves	Drying (dehydration)	≤ 188 Microgram/100 gram	HPLC-UV	Resolve DOI
Scopoletin	Leaves	Drying (dehydration)	≥ 16.9 Microgram/100 gram	HPLC-UV	Resolve DOI
Scopoletin	Leaves	Drying (dehydration)	≤ 161.3 Microgram/100 gram	HPLC-UV	Resolve DOI
Umbelliferone	Leaves	Drying (dehydration)	≤ 94.1 Microgram/100 gram	HPLC-UV	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Unspecified	Essential oil	7.5 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Calcium oxalate	Unspecified	—	≤ 2.6 Percent	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	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.

Bajerova, Petra., Adam, Martin., Bajer, Tomas., Ventura, Karel. Comparison of various techniques for the extraction and determination of antioxidants in plants. JOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE, 2014, vol. 37, no. 7, p. 835-844. DOI
Aynehchi, Y., Sormaghi, M. H. Salehi., Amin, G. H., Soltani, A., Qumehr, N. Survey of Iranian plants for saponins, alkaloids, flavonoids and tannins. II. International Journal of Crude Drug Research, 1982, p. 61-70.
Chalchat, J.-C., Garry, R.-P. Chemical composition of the leaf oil of Verbena officinalis L.. Journal of essential oil research, 1996, vol. 8, no. 4, p. 419-420.
Mathams, R. H., Sutherland, A. K. The oxalate content of some Queensland pasture plants. Queensland journal of agricultural science, 1952, p. 317-334.

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