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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Satureja montana (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Winter Savory; Savory
How this plant is used
Food
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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 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TERPINOLENE 9 Plant 0.6 25.0 -0.52 *
THUJANOL-4 0 Plant Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
THYMOL 71 Essential Oil 19700.0 -1.01 *
THYMOL 71 Plant 5.0 14030.0 1.16 *
THYMOQUINONE 16 Plant 1.0 75.0 *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Leaf 16000.0 -0.05 *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Plant 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 *
XANTHOMICROL 3 Shoot *
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
Antigonadotropic 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antihalitosic 2 American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihelicobacter 2 *
Antihemolytic 3 Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhoidal 1 Martindale's 28th
Antihepatoadenomic 1 *
Antihepatotoxic 6 *
Antiherpetic 5 *
Antihistaminic 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiHIV 7 *
Antihomocysteine 1 *
Antihydrocoele 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperlipidemic 2 *
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihyperthyroid 3 *
Antiincontinence 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiinflammatory 22 *
Antiintegrase 1 *
Antiischemic 1 *