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Plant Satureja montana (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Winter Savory; Savory
How this plant is used
Food
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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
TERPINEN-4-YL-ACETATE 0 Plant not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TERPINOLENE 9 Plant 0.6 25.0 -0.52 Duke, 1992 *
THUJANOL-4 0 Plant not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
THYMOL 71 Essential Oil not available 19700.0 -1.01 Duke, 1992 *
THYMOL 71 Plant 5.0 14030.0 1.16 Duke, 1992 *
THYMOQUINONE 16 Plant 1.0 75.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Leaf not available 16000.0 -0.05 Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Plant not available 16000.0 -0.03 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
VIRIDIFLORENE 0 Plant 4.0 75.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOMICROL 3 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
YLANGENE 1 Plant 1.0 270.0 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.
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List of plant activities.
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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.