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Plant Salvia officinalis (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Sage
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
SODIUM 1 Leaf 170.0 1080.0 -0.46 Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM 1 Plant 11.0 12.0 -0.30 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
SPATHULENOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed not available not available not available Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
STIGMASTEROL 12 Fruit Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Leaf 5.0 230.0 1.78 Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Plant 20000.0 80000.0 -0.05 Duke, 1992 *
TANNINS 0 Leaf 785.0 10000.0 -1.09 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Essential Oil not available 4500.0 -0.57 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Leaf 10.0 1120.0 0.30 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Leaf Essent. Oil 2000.0 3000.0 -0.52 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL 18 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL 18 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
TERPINOLENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 2000.0 -0.59 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Plant not available 112.0 0.25 Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Leaf 7.0 8.0 -0.06 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
THIAMINE 0 Leaf 1.3 8.2 0.73 Duke, 1992 *
THUJOL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil not available 1300.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
THUJONE 17 Essential Oil 451300.0 531000.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat 3 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostatic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective 16 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 253.
Hepatotonic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide 13 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
HIF-1alpha-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Histamine-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic 1 Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 224.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hydrocholerectic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic 1 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypertensive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hyperthermic 1 HerbalGram No. 22 - Spring 1990, page 45.
Hypnotic 1 Duke, 1992 *