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Plant Satureja montana (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Winter Savory; Savory
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
1,8-CINEOL 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
1,8-CINEOLE 67 Plant 4.0 150.0 -0.52 Duke, 1992 *
1-OCTEN-3-OL 0 Plant 7.0 360.0 0.33 Duke, 1992 *
5-DEMETHOXY-NOBILETIN 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ACACETIN 16 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-COPAENE 0 Plant 3.0 85.0 -0.11 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Plant 8.0 325.0 2.40 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-MUUROLENE 0 Plant 1.0 15.0 1.19 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Plant 1.0 325.0 1.10 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Essential Oil not available 6600.0 -0.50 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Plant 5.0 245.0 -0.31 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Plant 15.0 410.0 0.12 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Plant 3.0 2185.0 1.21 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINYL-ACETATE 0 Plant not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Essential Oil not available 7400.0 -0.35 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Plant 5.0 300.0 -0.38 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJONE 6 Plant 10.0 385.0 -0.02 Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN 101 Plant not available not available not available Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
APIGENIN 101 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
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiacetylcholine 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antiacetylcholinesterase 8 Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne 6 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
AntiADD 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiaflatoxin 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antialcoholic 1 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergic 7 J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialzheimeran 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran? 3 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antianaphylactic 2 Int. J. Immunopharmacology. Vol 10: 729, 1988.
Antiandrogenic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic 2 Martindale's 28th
Antiangiogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic 3 Duke, 1992 *