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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Salvia sclarea (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Clary Sage
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 22419.0 -0.24 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHELLANDRENE 4 Plant Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
PROPIONIC-ACID-ESTER 0 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTEIN 0 Seed 207000.0 -0.24 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ROSMARINIC-ACID 57 Plant 34000.0 0.34 Fitoterapia No.62: 166.
SALVIA-4(14)-EN-1-ONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
SCLAREOL 5 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 8568.0 -0.38 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TANNIN 35 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Plant 1.0 6.0 -0.28 Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 6: 154.
TERPINOLENE 9 Plant 1.0 12.0 -0.63 Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 6: 154.
TRANS-ALLO-OCIMENE 0 Plant Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
TRANS-BETA-OCIMENE 0 Plant 4.4 42.0 1.00 Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 6: 154.
TRANS-BETA-TERPINEOL 0 Plant Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRANS-LINALOL-OXIDE 0 Plant Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 6: 153.
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
VALERIC-ACID-ESTER 0 Plant Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiacetylcholinesterase 5 *
Antiacne 6 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Antiadenomic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antiaflatoxin 1 *
Antiaggregant 1 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Antiallergenic 1 *
Antiallergic 5 J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic 3 *
Antialzheimeran 2 Ringbom, T., Seguar, L., Noreen, Y., Perera, P., Bohlin, L. 1998. Ursolic Acid from Plantago major, a Selective Inhibitor of Cyclooxygenase-2 Catalyzed Prostaglandin Biosynthesis. J. Nat. Prod., 61(10): 1212-1215.
Antialzheimeran? 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antianaphylactic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic 4 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiarrhythmic 2 *
Antiarteriosclerotic 1 *
Antiarthritic 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Mar-91.
Antiasthmatic 2 Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis., 4:203, 1982.
Antiatherosclerotic 2 *
Antibacillary 1 *