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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
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Inflorescence not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CALAMENE 0 Plant 5.0 28.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 1696.0 10800.0 -0.52 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
CAMPESTEROL 2 Fruit Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Leaf not available 120.0 -0.20 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPHENE 9 Essential Oil 30200.0 60700.0 1.13 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf 20.0 18592.0 6.83 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil 28000.0 66400.0 1.48 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE 9 Et not available 47000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR 41 Essential Oil 76000.0 305000.0 0.54 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR 41 Leaf 0.0 9324.0 -0.04 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR 41 Leaf Essent. Oil 44000.0 458000.0 2.01 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR 41 Pericarp Essent. Oil not available 229000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf 103620.0 660000.0 0.38 Duke, 1992 *
CARNOSIC-ACID 2 Leaf not available 12400.0 1.59 Duke, 1992 *
CARNOSIC-ACID 2 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available 57000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CARNOSIC-ACID 2 Shoot not available 35.0 -0.67 Duke, 1992 *
CARNOSIC-ACID-12-METHYL-ETHER 0 Shoot not available not available not available 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 *