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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
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Leaf 1255.0 1300.0 -0.39 Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Stem not available 200.0 -0.86 Duke, 1992 *
UVAOL 6 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VALERANONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Plant not available not available not available Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
VIRIDIFLOROL 1 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VIRIDIFLOROL 1 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
WATER 0 Leaf not available 843000.0 0.18 Duke, 1992 *
WAX 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ZINC 77 Leaf 1.0 5.9 -0.49 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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 *