Comment · Fri, May 24, 2019
Any chance on selling Butterbur?
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MilkDud58 · 6 points
I've been interested in trying Butterbur to help with my migraines, but have some concerns regarding its safety. It can contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids, which are hepatoxic. There are some reputable manufacturers that state their preparations are PA free, but I just trust ND's testing more, so curious if you guys have ever looked into carrying it.
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Butter beer? I'll have to get permission from Dumbledore. LOL
I had never actually heard of butterbur till now. It seems that petasin is the active ingredient in it that helps with migraines. I can check with my lab director about the ability to isolate and quantify the pyrrolizidine alkaloids. It's much easier to rule out the presence of something than give an exact quantifiable number of something in a sample. So I would think it would be doable for us. Our new UPLC and HP-TLC have opened up a whole new world of analytical abilities for us. That damn UPLC is impressive! It's so much more doable to do method development and validation on a machine that has 5 minute runs, rather than one that has 2 hour runs. It makes HPLC looks ancient in comparison.