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Viburnum opulus

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements for Viburnum opulus. 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: Viburnum opulus L.

7Constituent measurements

0Safety records

5Cited sources

150Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 150 licensed products naming Viburnum opulus 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

Source material stated

Aged bark
Bark
Branch bark
Cortex
Fresh bark of twigs and young stems
Fresh bark of young branches
Fruit
Rhizome bark

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
Eugenol	Bark	Solvent extraction	—	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Gallic acid	Bark	Solvent extraction	121.32 Milligram/kilogram	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Lutein epoxide	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≥ 36 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Lutein epoxide	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≤ 53 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
P-coumaric acid	Bark	Solvent extraction	7.29 Milligram/Milligram	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Scopoletin	Roots and other underground parts	Essential oil	—	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	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.

Eriksson, Carina., Mansson, Per E., Sjodin, Kristina., Schlyter, Fredrik. Antifeedants and Feeding Stimulants in Bark Extracts of Ten Woody Non-host Species of the Pine Weevil, Hylobius abietis . Journal of chemical ecology, 2008, vol. 34, no. 10, p. 1290-1297. DOI
Turek, Sebastian., Cisowski, Wojciech. Free and chemically bonded phenolic acids in barks of Viburnum opulus L. and Sambucus nigra L. . Acta poloniae pharmaceutica, 2007, vol. 64, no. 4, p. 377-83.
Czeczuga, B. Investigations of carotenoids in Embryophyta. Part 8. Autumn carotenoids in the leaves of some trees. Biochemical systematics and ecology, 1986, p. 203-206.
Petricic, Jovan., Stanic, Gordana., Holik, Ludmila. Flavonoids, saponins, tannins, and arbutin as constituents of leaves of Viburnum tinus, V. opulus, and V. lantana. Acta pharmaceutica jugoslavica, 1980, p. 97-101.
Jarboe, Charles H., Zirvi, Karimullah A., Nicholson, John A., Schmidt, Charlotte M. Scopoletin, as antispasmodic component of Viburnum opulus and V. Prunifolium. Journal of medicinal chemistry, 1967, p. 488-489.

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