In fact, this cancer-causing rumor originated from a report that the World Health Organization announced that it contained estragole, which is Artemisia scoparia. It said that if the consumption of mice exceeded 1230mg per kilogram, it would cause liver cancer.
Moreover, the oil of Eupatorium odoratum contains as much as 30% of wormwood, that is to say, the fat content of 10g of Semen Gleditsiae is 1.9g, that is to say, if you eat10g a day, the intake of basil oil is1.9g, which is equivalent to1900mg.
But after I checked the ingredient content table of Lanxiangzi,
It was found that the seeds contained ash 8.70%, protein 16.40%, fat 16.86%, fiber 28. 14%, moisture 6.87% and carbohydrate (calculated by difference) 23.03%.
The seed oil contains 3.3% eleostearic acid, 6.4% stearic acid, 0/5.4% oleic acid, 56.3% linoleic acid and 0/8.5% linolenic acid.
The fruit contains 9.2% pentose, 70.3% hexose, 7.3% uronic acid, 25.4% free lipid and 0/0.3% bound lipid. D- galacturonic acid 6. 1%, D- mannuronic acid 3.3%, D- glucose 25.0%, D- galactose 24.4%, D- mannose 10.0%, L- arabinose 12.4%, D.
The above is transferred from China Traditional Chinese Medicine Network, and interested lovers can go and have a look. ..
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Back to the point .. From this data, I can't see how much wood estragol contains. But .. this thing only exists in the volatile oil of seeds, and the fat one is not oil ... Don't confuse it with the rumors ... The extractable volatile oil content of normal plants is 0.5%-0.75% (normal is this range, maybe the extraction process is not good), and the maximum is not more than 3% (theoretical value).
I don't know about this, but I'll know how much it contains by looking it up ... and now let's look at it ... Take the maximum value ... that is, 5g of volatile oil such as basil and basil, which contains 150mg ... Note that ... it is volatile oil ... not estragole… .. Let's look at another data ...
Seven compounds have been isolated from the volatile oil of the whole plant: estragole, linalool, 1, 8- cineole, ocimene, linalyl acetate and clove.
At present, seven compounds can be separated from the volatile oil ... one of them is estragole, ok. Let's not assume how much it contains in the volatile oil ... (actually, I can't find the data), so let's assume that the volatile oil is all estragole .. 5g is only 150mg ... Besides, there are so many volatile oils in the wood ...
Let's go back to the front, that is, how much is toxic for a 40 kg girl … it is 4 1200 mg. Do you remember this data? Then let's calculate ... hmm ... it takes 274.6666 consecutive times to cause toxicity ... well ... what an invincible number ... the most important thing is ... these will be decomposed ... not that you can't get rid of them after eating them!
The most important thing is that if you go to the World Health Organization in official website, there is no such report at all, and you who know English can check the world, and there is no qualitative determination that Artemisia scoparia, that is, estragole, is carcinogenic ~!
Moreover, we should know that estragole is actually a plant product with a wide range of contents … Natural products exist in apples, European cowberries, anise, cider, marjoram, tarragon, fennel, basil and asarum commonly used in pharmacy … In fact, it is harmless … just slandered …
So do you understand? Eupatorium odoratum is not carcinogenic at all. . . I don't know what psychology people who make rumors are ~