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Common Names
Winter Savory; Savory
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OCTANOL | 0 | Plant | 1.0 | 55.0 | 1.00 | Stanic, G., Petricic, J., and Blazevic, N. 1991. Gas Chromatographic Investigations of Essential Oils of Satureja montana and Satureja subspicata from Yugoslavia. J. Ess. Oil Res., 3: 153-158. |
| OLEANOLIC-ACID | 64 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| P-CYMENE | 16 | Essential Oil | 163700.0 | 273000.0 | 1.62 | Duke, 1992 * |
| P-CYMENE | 16 | Plant | 45.0 | 6210.0 | 1.20 | Duke, 1992 * |
| P-CYMOL | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PERILLYA-ALCOHOL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| PERILLYL-ALCOHOL | 14 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| PHENOL | 26 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| PHENOLS | 0 | Plant | 750.0 | 11500.0 | 0.01 | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| PHYTOSTEROLS | 2 | Plant | not available | 310.0 | -1.37 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| POLYISOPRENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| ROSMARINIC-ACID | 57 | Plant | 3000.0 | 12000.0 | -1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ROSMARINIC-ACID | 57 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SABINENE | 5 | Plant | not available | 1.0 | -0.45 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SALVIGENIN | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SCUTELLAREIN-6,7-DIMETHYL-ETHER | 0 | 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. |
| STIGMASTEROL | 12 | Leaf | not available | 10.0 | -0.80 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| TERPENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| TERPINEN-4-OL | 23 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TERPINEN-4-OL | 23 | Plant | 1.0 | 1610.0 | 0.42 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Bronchorelaxant | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Calcium-Antagonist | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Calcium-Antagonist? | 1 | Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991. |
| Cancer-Preventive | 18 | Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp. |
| Candidicide | 10 | Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155. |
| Candidistat | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Carcinogenic | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cardiodepressant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cardioprotective | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cardiotonic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Carminative | 5 | Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994. |
| Caspase-8-Inducer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cerebrotonic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Chemopreventive | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cholagogue | 2 | Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp. |
| Choleretic | 7 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cholesterolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cholinergic | 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. |
| Cicatrizant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Clastogenic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |