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Vernicia fordii

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 9 constituent measurements and 3 adverse-effect records for Vernicia fordii. 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: Vernicia fordii (Hemsl.) Airy Shaw

9Constituent measurements

3Safety records

6Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Aleurites fordii Hemsl.

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

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
Coumarins	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Phorbol esters	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Phorbol esters	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Syringaresinol	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Chebulagic acid	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Corilagin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Ellagitannins (hydrolysable tannins)	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Geraniin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Phorbol esters	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier

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
Digestive	Digestive	Seed	—	Human (as organism)	Case report	No resolvable identifier
Digestive	Digestive	Fruit unspecified	—	Human (as organism)	Case report	No resolvable identifier
Neurotoxicity	Neurologic	Fruit unspecified	—	Human (as organism)	Case report	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.

Xie Yu-Feng., Tao Zheng-Ming., Wang Hong-Bing., Qin Guo-Wei. Chemical Constituents from the Roots of Vernicia fordii. Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines, 2010, vol. 8, no. 4, p. 264-266. DOI
Lin, TJ., Hsu, CI., Lee, KH., Shiu, LL., Deng, JF. Two outbreaks of acute Tung Nut (Aleurites fordii) poisoning. JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY-CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY, 1996, vol. 34, no. 1, p. 87-92.
NONAKA, G., HAYASHI, M., TANAKA, T., SAIJO, R., NISHIOKA, I. TANNINS AND RELATED-COMPOUNDS .92. ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CYANOGENIC ELLAGITANNINS, ALEURININ-A AND ALEURININ-B, AND A RELATED O-GLYCOSIDIC ELLAGITANNIN, ALEURININ-C, FROM ALEURITES-FORDII HEMSLEY. CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN, 1990, vol. 38, no. 4, p. 861-865.
Okuda, Takuo., Yoshida, Takashi., Koike, Shigeto., Toh, Namiko. Toxic constituent of the fruits of Aleurites fordii. Chemical Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 1974, p. 971-972.
Pei, Yi-Hua., Kim, Jae Wha., Kang, Ho-Bum., Lee, Hyeong-Kyu., Kim, Chan-Soo., Song, Hyuk-Hwan., Chin, Young-Won., Oh, Sei-Ryang. Tigliane diterpene esters with IFN gamma-inducing activity from the leaves of Aleurites fordii. BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 2012, vol. 22, no. 6, p. 2318-2320. DOI
Carratala, Rogelio E. Collective intoxication by the fruit of Aleurites fordii. Dia med., 1936.

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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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