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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
ISOROSMANOL 1 Shoot not available 57.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES 0 Leaf not available 3420.0 0.65 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
LABIATIC-ACID 1 Leaf not available not available not available Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
LEDENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LEDOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 3000.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE 60 Essential Oil 6600.0 85000.0 -0.25 Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE 60 Leaf Essent. Oil 10000.0 36400.0 -0.52 Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE 60 Plant 39.0 2380.0 0.98 Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE 60 Et not available 14000.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL 0 Plant 0.0 3500.0 0.36 Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL 53 Essential Oil 1700.0 5000.0 -0.56 Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL 53 Leaf Essent. Oil 4000.0 46600.0 -0.40 Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL 53 Plant 0.0 3500.0 -0.19 Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL 53 Et not available 11000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil 2000.0 216000.0 1.96 Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 2000.0 34900.0 1.63 Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL-ACETATE 0 Et not available 10000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
LINALYL-ACETATE 7 Plant 0.0 6048.0 2.33 Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Fruit Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed not available 73000.0 -0.29 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
Antiarabiflavinotic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiarrhythmic 7 Duke, 1992 *
Antiarteriosclerotic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic 14 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiasthmatic 10 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatherogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiatheromic 1 Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic 10 Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillary 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillus 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial 47 Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic 1 Encarnacion Dimayuga, R., Keer Garcia, S., Halfdan Nielsen, P., and Christophersen, C. 1989. Traditional Medicine of Baja California Sur (Mexico) III. Carnosol: A Diterpene Antibiotic from Lepechinia hastata. J. Ethnopharmacology, 31: 43-48, 1991.
AntiBPH 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic 5 Martindale's 28th
Anticancer 10 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Anticancer (Colon) 4 Duke, 1992 *