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Virola sebifera

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 15 constituent measurements for Virola sebifera. 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: Virola sebifera Aubl.

15Constituent measurements
0Safety records
9Cited sources
0Licensed products (Canada)

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

  • Lignans6
  • Tryptamine alkaloids2
  • Alkaloids1
  • Asarinin1
  • Kobusin1
  • Lutein epoxide1
  • N,n-dimethyl-5-methoxytryptamine1
  • N,n-dimethyltryptamine1
  • Violaxanthin1

Plant parts

  • Leaves9
  • Bark4
  • Fruit unspecified1
  • Seed1

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction12

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
AlkaloidsBarkSolvent extraction—Gelpermeation, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)Resolve DOI
LignansSeedSolvent extraction—Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)Resolve DOI
LignansLeavesSolvent extraction≥ 16 MilligramNuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)Resolve DOI
LignansLeavesSolvent extraction≤ 352 MilligramNuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)Resolve DOI
LignansLeavesSolvent extraction44 MilligramNuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)Resolve DOI
LignansLeavesSolvent extraction—Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)Resolve DOI
Lutein epoxideLeaves—25.7 MillimoleUnspecifiedResolve DOI
ViolaxanthinLeaves—20.7 MillimoleUnspecifiedResolve DOI
AsarininLeavesSolvent extraction—GC-MSNo resolvable identifier
KobusinLeavesSolvent extraction—GC-MSNo resolvable identifier
LignansFruit unspecified——UnspecifiedNo resolvable identifier
N,n-dimethyl-5-methoxytryptamineBarkSolvent extraction—Phytochemical screeningNo resolvable identifier
N,n-dimethyltryptamineBarkSolvent extraction—Phytochemical screeningNo resolvable identifier
Tryptamine alkaloidsBarkSolvent extraction—Phytochemical screeningNo resolvable identifier
Tryptamine alkaloidsLeavesSolvent extraction—Phytochemical screeningNo 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. Martinez V., Juan C., Cuca S., Luis E., Martinez M., Patricia. Furofuranolignans in the bark of Virola sebifera (Aublet). Revista colombiana de quimica, 1987, vol. 1985, 14(1-2), p. 117-25.
  2. Tonelli, F. M. P., De Siqueira, J. M., Maia, G. A. S., Soares, L. F., Da Silva, D. B., Carollo, C. A., Sartori, A. L. B. Bioautography as a search tool to identify the allelopathic compounds in Virola sebifera . Allelopathy journal, 2014, vol. 33, no. 2, p. 277-288.
  3. KAWANISHI, K., UHARA, Y., HASHIMOTO, Y. ALKALOIDS FROM THE HALLUCINOGENIC PLANT VIROLA-SEBIFERA. Phytochemistry, 1985, vol. 24, no. 6, p. 1373-1375. DOI
  4. Rezende, KR., Kato, MJ. Dibenzylbutane and aryltetralone lignans from seeds of Virola sebifera. Phytochemistry, 2002, vol. 61, no. 4, p. 427-432. DOI
  5. Martinez, JC., Aldana, MI., Cuca, LE. The chemistry of Colombian Myristicaceae. Part 14. Dibenzylbutane lignans from Virola sebifera leaves . Phytochemistry, 1999, vol. 50, no. 5, p. 883-886. DOI
  6. McKenna, Dennis J., Towers, G. H. N., Abbott, F. S. Monoamine oxidase inhibitors in South American hallucinogenic plants. Part 2: constituents of orally-active Myristicaceous hallucinogens. Journal of ethnopharmacology, 1984, vol. 12, no. 2, p. 179-211.
  7. Denny, Carina., Zacharias, Marcela Engelbrecht., Tasca Gois Ruiz, Ana Lucia., do Amaral, Maria do Carmo E., Bittrich, Volker., Kohn, Luciana Konecny., de Oliveira Sousa, Ilza Maria., Ferreira Rodrigues, Rodney Alexandre., de Carvalho, Joao Ernesto., Foglio, Mary Ann. Antiproliferative properties of polyketides isolated from Virola sebifera leaves . Phytotherapy research, 2008, vol. 22, no. 1, p. 127-130. DOI
  8. YOSHIDA, M., Seidl, PR., Gottlieb, OR., Kaplan, MAC. BIOLOGICALLY-ACTIVE NEOLIGNANS FROM AMAZONIAN TREES. Chemistry of the amazon: biodiversity, natural products, and environmental issues, 1995, vol. 588, p. 85-92.
  9. Matsubara, Shizue., Krause, G. Heinrich., Seltmann, Martin., Virgo, Aurelio., Kursar, Thomas A., Jahns, Peter., Winter, Klaus. Lutein epoxide cycle, light harvesting and photoprotection in species of the tropical tree genus Inga . Plant cell and environment, 2008, vol. 31, no. 4, p. 548-561. DOI

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