Plant Origanum majorana (Lamiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Marjoram; Sweet Marjoram

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Plant	not available	3.0	-0.59	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ROSMARINIC-ACID	57	Inflorescence	not available	33000.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
ROSMARINIC-ACID	57	Plant	not available	33000.0	0.28	Fitoterapia No.62: 166.
ROSMARINIC-ACID	57	Shoot	not available	9400.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Essential Oil	not available	82000.0	-0.02	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	30000.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Plant	75.0	7500.0	5.00	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID-2-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
SODIUM	1	Plant	675.0	935.0	-0.25	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STEARIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Plant	50.0	55.0	-0.73	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
SYRINGIC-ACID-4-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Essential Oil	not available	103000.0	0.38	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Leaf	135.0	1530.0	0.53	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	310000.0	2.08	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Plant	1365.0	13650.0	5.67	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	176700.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiepileptic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antierythemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiesophagitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue	5	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant	11	Duke, 1992 *
Antifertility	3	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastritic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.