Botanical species · safety record

Yucca schidigera

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 2 constituent measurements and 6 adverse-effect records for Yucca schidigera. 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: Yucca schidigera Roezl ex Ortgies

2Constituent measurements

6Safety records

3Cited sources

35Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 35 licensed products naming Yucca schidigera 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

Root
Root (powder)
Root extract
Stem
Trunk bark
Yucca schidigera

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
Saponins	Unspecified	—	10 Percent	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Steroidal saponins	Bark	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI

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
Hepatotoxicity	Digestive	Aerial part of plants	—	Ruminants (generic) (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	Resolve DOI
Hepatotoxicity	Digestive	Aerial part of plants	—	Ruminants (generic) (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	Resolve DOI
Nephrotoxicity	Urogenital	Aerial part of plants	—	Ruminants (generic) (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	Resolve DOI
Nephrotoxicity	Urogenital	Aerial part of plants	—	Ruminants (generic) (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	Resolve DOI
Other toxicities	—	Aerial part of plants	—	Ruminants (generic) (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	Resolve DOI
Other toxicities	—	Aerial part of plants	—	Ruminants (generic) (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	Resolve DOI

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.

Benchaar, C., Chouinard, P. Y. Assessment of the potential of cinnamaldehyde, condensed tannins, and saponins to modify milk fatty acid composition of dairy cows . Journal of dairy science, 2009, vol. 92, no. 7, p. 3392-3396. DOI
Oleszek, W., Sitek, M., Stochmal, A., Piacente, S., Pizza, C., Cheeke, P. Steroidal saponins of Yucca schidigera Roezl.. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2001, vol. 49, no. 9, p. 4392-4396. DOI
Wisloff, Helene., Uhlig, Silvio., Scheie, Eldri., Loader, Jared., Wilkins, Alistair., Flaoyen, Arne. Toxicity testing of saponin-containing Yucca schidigera Roetzl. juice in relation to hepato- and nephrotoxicity of Narthecium ossifragum (L.) Huds . Toxicon, 2008, vol. 51, no. 1, p. 140-150. DOI

Boundary

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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