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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Salvia sclarea (Lamiaceae)

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

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
GERANYL-ACETATE 5 Plant 20.0 1150.0 0.82 Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 6: 154.
GERMACRENE-D 2 Plant 3.0 312.0 -0.16 Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 6: 154.
ISOSPATHULENOL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
LIGNOCERIC-ACID 1 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
LIMONENE 60 Plant 0.4 12.0 -0.48 Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 6: 154.
LINALOL 0 Plant 7.0 930.0 -0.22 Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 6: 153.
LINALYL-ACETATE 7 Plant 1.0 3750.0 1.23 *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed 53488.0 -0.46 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Seed 161100.0 2.23 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
MANOOL 2 Plant Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
MYRCENE 22 Plant 1.0 42.0 -0.43 Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 6: 154.
N-NONANOL 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
N-PENTANOL 0 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NERAL 4 Plant 0.4 340.0 -0.45 Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 6: 154.
NEROL 10 Plant 6.0 280.0 -0.26 Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 6: 154.
NEROLIDOL 11 Plant Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
NERYL-ACETATE 5 Plant 6.0 144.0 -0.35 Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 6: 154.
OLEANOLIC-ACID 64 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 69006.0 -0.41 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
P-CYMENE 16 Plant 1.0 27.0 -0.41 Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 6: 154.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Chelator 1 *
Chemopreventive 4 *
Choleretic 3 *
Cholesterolytic 1 *
Cicatrizant 2 *
CNS-Depressant 1 *
CNS-Stimulant 3 *
Coleoptophile 1 *
Comedolytic 1 *
Convulsant 2 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Cosmetic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant 2 Martindale's 28th
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 3 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 3 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer 1 *
Cytotoxic 3 *
Decongestant 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Degranulant 1 *
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jim Duke's personal files.