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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
Enterotoxic 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Epileptigenic 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.
Estrogenic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant 11 Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
FLavor 25 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 20 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 3 Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gastroirritant 1 Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide 2 Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide 2 Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hemolytic 1 Martindale's 28th
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective 8 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic 1 Duke, 1992 *