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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
APIGENIN-4'-METHYL-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.
AROMADENDRENE 3 Plant 2.0 30.0 -0.55 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-BISABOLENE 6 Plant 20.0 400.0 0.84 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-BOURBONENE 0 Plant 4.0 85.0 0.11 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Plant 20.0 1050.0 0.51 J. Ethnopharmacology, 39: 167.
BETA-GURJUNENE 0 Plant 2.0 45.0 -0.55 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Essential Oil not available 17000.0 -0.35 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Plant 1.0 55.0 -0.38 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant not available 280.0 -0.54 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETA-THUJONE 5 Plant 2.0 65.0 -0.80 Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL 35 Essential Oil not available 12200.0 -0.80 Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL 35 Plant 15.0 545.0 -0.18 Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ACETATE 12 Plant 1.0 30.0 -0.45 Duke, 1992 *
BORON 4 Plant 25.0 37.0 -0.44 Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE 9 Essential Oil not available 3100.0 -0.60 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE 9 Plant 2.0 85.0 -0.46 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR 41 Plant 5.0 75.0 -0.62 Duke, 1992 *
CAR-3-ENE 0 Essential Oil not available 16100.0 -0.57 Duke, 1992 *
CARVACROL 37 Essential Oil 356000.0 412300.0 0.53 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
Inhalant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
iNOS-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Insect-Repellent 2 Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide 9 Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge 23 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 4 Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Interferonogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 17 Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide 3 Misra, L.N. and Singh, S.P. Alpha-Thujone, The Major Component Of The Essential Oil From Artemisia vulgaris Growing Wild In Nilgiri Hills. Journal of Natural Products, 49: 941, 1986.
Larvistat 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 2 Duke, 1992 *
Leucocytogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Lipolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lipotropic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 5 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.