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Plant Salvia sclarea (Lamiaceae)

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

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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
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed not available 22419.0 -0.24 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHELLANDRENE 4 Plant not available not available not available 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 not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTEIN 0 Seed not available 207000.0 -0.24 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ROSMARINIC-ACID 57 Plant not available 34000.0 0.34 Fitoterapia No.62: 166.
SALVIA-4(14)-EN-1-ONE 0 Plant not available not available not available J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
SCLAREOL 5 Plant not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed not available 8568.0 -0.38 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TANNIN 35 Plant not available not available not available 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 not available not available not available 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 not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRANS-LINALOL-OXIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 6: 153.
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Plant not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
VALERIC-ACID-ESTER 0 Plant not available not available not available 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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antioxidant (LDL) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipeptic 2 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Antiperiodontic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiperoxidant 2 Duke, 1992 *
AntiPGE2 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipharyngitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiplaque 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiplasmodial 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antipneumonic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiproliferative 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiproteolytic 1 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Antipruritic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antipulmonotic 1 Tyler, V.E.. 1994.
Antipyretic 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Mar-91.
Antiradicular 2 Duke, 1992 *