St John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) products – an assessment of their authenticity and quality

Phytomedicine

Volumn 40, Issue , 2018, Pages 158-164

  Booker, Anthony ^a,b   Agapouda, Anastasia ^a   Frommenwiler, Débora A ^c   Scotti, Francesca ^a   Reich, Eike ^c   Heinrich, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CAMAG Laboratory   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Avicularin guaijaverin; Hypericum perforatum; Quality control; St John's wort; Traditional Herbal Registration (THR); Value chains

Indexed keywords

AMARANTH; BRILLIANT BLUE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HYPERICIN; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM EXTRACT; SUNSET YELLOW; TARTRAZINE; PLANT EXTRACT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONSUMER; CULTIVAR; HIGH PERFORMANCE THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; MARKET; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; POWDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT SAFETY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DRUG CONTAMINATION; HYPERICUM; MEDICINAL PLANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHINA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DRUG CONTAMINATION; HYPERICUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; QUALITY CONTROL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85041478809     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: 1618095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2017.12.012     Document Type: Article

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