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Common Names
Sage
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALPHA-TERPINEOL | 23 | Leaf | 5.0 | 910.0 | 1.01 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| ALPHA-TERPINEOL | 23 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 1000.0 | -0.84 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-TERPINEOL ACETATE | 0 | Et | not available | 9000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-THUJENE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | 1200.0 | -0.39 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-THUJENE | 0 | Leaf | 0.0 | 386.0 | 3.25 | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| ALPHA-THUJENE | 0 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 13800.0 | -0.42 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-THUJONE | 6 | Essential Oil | 73300.0 | 408500.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-THUJONE | 6 | Leaf | 200.0 | 10172.0 | 2.58 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-THUJONE | 6 | Leaf Essent. Oil | 200000.0 | 363300.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-THUJONE | 6 | Et | not available | 206000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-URSOLIC-ACID | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALUMINUM | 5 | Leaf | 18.0 | 115.0 | -0.66 | Duke, 1992 * |
| APIGENIN | 101 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli. |
| APIGENIN | 101 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| APIGENIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCURONYLPYRANOSIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| APIGENIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCURONYLPYRANOSIDE | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| AROMADENDRENE | 3 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASCORBIC-ACID | 112 | Leaf | 55.0 | 350.0 | -0.41 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASH | 0 | Leaf | 13659.0 | 87000.0 | -0.56 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASPARAGINE | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Insectiphile | 3 | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| Insulin-Sparing | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Insulinogenic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Interferon-Synergist | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Interferonogenic | 2 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Interleukin-6-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Irritant | 19 | 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. |
| Juvabional | 3 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
| Keratolytic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Larvicide | 6 | Misra, L.N. and Singh, S.P. Alpha-Thujone, The Major Component Of The Essential Oil From Artemisia vulgaris Growing Wild In Nilgiri Hills. Journal of Natural Products, 49: 941, 1986. |
| Larvistat | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Laxative | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Laxative? | 1 | Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91. |
| Leptingenic | 1 | Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95 |
| Leucocytogenic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Leukotriene-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Lipolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor | 10 | Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690. |
| Lithogenic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |