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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Origanum majorana (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Marjoram; Sweet Marjoram
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(+)-CAR-3-ENE 0 Essential Oil *
(+)-CARAN-TRANS-4-OL 0 Essential Oil *
(+)-MENTHA-1,8-DIENE 0 Essential Oil *
1,8-CINEOL 0 Essential Oil *
1,8-CINEOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 75000.0 -0.40 *
1-ETHOXY-2-P-MENTHENE 0 Essential Oil 7000.0 *
1-ETHOXY-P-MENTH-2-ENE 0 Plant Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
3-BETA-HYDROXYURS-12-EN-28-OIC-ACID-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL-(1->4)-O-BETA-D-XYLOPYRANOSIDE 0 Stem 13000.0 *
4-ETHOXY-P-MENTH-1-ENE 0 Plant *
ALLO-AROMADENDRENE 0 Essential Oil *
ALLO-AROMADENDRENE 0 Plant Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-COPAENE 0 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-COPAENE 0 Plant Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-ELEMENE 0 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Plant Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-HYDROXYDIHYDROCAFFEIC-ACID 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Essential Oil 26000.0 -0.09 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Plant 18.0 103.0 -0.45 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Essential Oil 19000.0 -0.39 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Phagocytotic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Photosensitizer 1 Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Piscicide 2 *
Potassium-Sparing 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
PPAR-Gamma-Antagonist 1 *
Prooxidant 4 *
Propecic 2 *
Prostaglandigenic 2 *
Prostaglandin-Inhibitor 1 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 3 *
Prostatitigenic 1 *
Protease-Inhibitor 1 *
Protisticide 2 Chemical Express, 7: 285, 1992.
Psychotropic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 1 Lee, S. K., Song, Y., Mata-Greenwood, E., Kelloff, G. J., Steele, V. E., Pezzuto, J. M. 1999. Modulation of in vitro Biomarkers of the Carcinogenic Process by Chemopreventive Agents. Anticancer Res., 19: 35-44.
Radioprotective 2 *
Refrigerant 1 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Renoirritant 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Rodenticide 1 *
Rubefacient 1 *