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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BORON 4 Plant 25.0 37.0 -0.44 Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages.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
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 1 Azuma, Y., Onishi, Y., Sato, Y., Kizaki, H. 1995. Effects of Protein Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors With Different Modes of Action on Topoisomerase Activity and Death of IL-2-Dependent CTLL-2-Cells. J Biochemistry, 118: 312-318.
Toxic 1 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
Tracheorelaxant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 6 Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide 9 Duke, 1992 *
Trypanocide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Tumor-Promoter 1 Duke, 1992 *
Tumorigenic 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Ubiquiot 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Uricosuric 1 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
Urinary-Antiseptic 1 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Uterotonic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Uterotrophic 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Varroacide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator 2 Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor 2 Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Vermicide 2 Duke, 1992 *