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

Common Names
Common Turkish Oregano; Wild Oregano; Oregano; Pot Marjoram; Wild Marjoram; European Oregano
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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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
LIMONENE 60 Shoot Essent. Oil 1400.0 35900.0 -0.56 *
LINALOL 0 Plant 15.0 -0.43 Sezik, E., Tumen, G., Kirimer, N., Ozek, T., and Baser, K.H.C. 1993. Essential Oil Composition of Four Origanum vulgare Subspecies of Anatolian Origin. J. Ess. Oil Res., 5: 425-431.
LINALOL 0 Plant 1.0 600.0 -0.30 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LINALOOL 53 Essential Oil 380000.0 1.12 *
LINALOOL 53 Plant 1.0 600.0 -0.58 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LINALOOL 53 Shoot Essent. Oil 1200.0 238100.0 1.03 *
LINALYL-ACETATE 7 Plant 15.0 -0.57 Sezik, E., Tumen, G., Kirimer, N., Ozek, T., and Baser, K.H.C. 1993. Essential Oil Composition of Four Origanum vulgare Subspecies of Anatolian Origin. J. Ess. Oil Res., 5: 425-431.
LINALYL-ACETATE 7 Plant 8.0 184.0 -0.49 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Plant 1050.0 1131.0 -0.56 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LUTEOLIN 78 Plant *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCURONIDE 0 Plant Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
LUTEOLIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCURONIDE 0 Shoot *
MAGNESIUM 65 Plant 2600.0 3016.0 -0.33 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MANGANESE 14 Plant 47.0 -0.36 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MYRCENE 22 Plant 6.0 -0.47 Sezik, E., Tumen, G., Kirimer, N., Ozek, T., and Baser, K.H.C. 1993. Essential Oil Composition of Four Origanum vulgare Subspecies of Anatolian Origin. J. Ess. Oil Res., 5: 425-431.
MYRCENE 22 Plant 8.0 180.0 -0.28 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
MYRCENE 22 Shoot Essent. Oil 6100.0 180900.0 1.99 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Plant 1700.0 1831.0 1.08 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NARINGENIN 56 Plant *
NARINGIN 12 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antifibromyalgic 1 *
Antifibrosarcomic 2 *
Antifibrositic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antifibrotic 3 *
Antiflu 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 1 *
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
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 *
Antigenotoxic 3 *
Antigingivitic 3 *
Antiglaucomic 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antigliomic 1 *
Antiglutamaergic 1 *
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 5 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigranular 1 *
AntiGTF 1 *
Antihalitosic 2 American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.