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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Crocus sativus (Iridaceae)

Common Names
Saffron
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
COPPER 12 Silk Stigma Style 3.0 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CROCETIN 10 Silk Stigma Style *
CROCETIN-(2,3,4,8,9,10,12-HEPTA-O-ACETYL-BETA-D-GENTIOBIOSYL)-(2,3,4,6-TETRA-O-ACETYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSYL)-ESTER 0 Silk Stigma Style *
CROCETIN-(BETA-D-GENTIOBIOSYL)-(BETA-D-GLUCOSYL)-ESTER 0 Silk Stigma Style 61000.0 *
CROCETIN-BETA-D-GENTIOBIOSIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CROCETIN-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CROCETIN-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE-D-GENTIOBIOSIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CROCETIN-DI-(2,3,4,6-TETRA-O-ACETYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSYL)-ESTER 0 Silk Stigma Style *
CROCETIN-DI-(2,3,4,8,9,10,12-HEPTA-O-ACETYL-BETA-D-GENTIOBIOSYL)-ESTER 0 Silk Stigma Style *
CROCETIN-DI-(BETA-D-GLUCOSYL)-ESTER 0 Silk Stigma Style 8000.0 *
CROCETIN-DI-BETA-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CROCETIN-MONO-(BETA-D-GENTIOBIOSYL)-ESTER 0 Silk Stigma Style *
CROCETIN-MONO-(BETA-D-GLUCOSYL)-ESTER 0 Silk Stigma Style *
CROCIN 4 Flower *
CROCIN 4 Plant *
CROCIN 4 Silk Stigma Style 6500.0 145000.0 *
CROCIN 4 Tissue Culture *
CROCIN-1 0 Silk Stigma Style 20000.0 *
CROCIN-2 0 Silk Stigma Style *
CROCIN-3 0 Silk Stigma Style *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer 1 *
Memory-Enhancer 1 Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Metal-Chelator (Copper) 3 *
Metalloproteinase-Inhibitor 1 *
Metastatic 1 Science News, 146: 421.
MMP-9-Inhibitor 1 *
Monoamine-Precursor 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mosquitofuge 1 *
Motor-Depressant 2 Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Mucogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mutagenic 3 *
Mycobactericide 1 *
Myorelaxant 3 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Natriuretic 1 *
Nematicide 9 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NEP-Inhibitor 1 *
Neuroexcitant 1 Martindale's 28th
Neuroinhibitor 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.