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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Serenoa repens (Arecaceae)

Common Names
Saw Palmetto; Scrub-Palmetto
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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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
LIPASE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
LUPEN-3-ONE 0 Fruit *
LUPEOL 21 Fruit *
MAGNESIUM 65 Fruit 510.0 3930.0 0.83 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
MANGANESE 14 Fruit 1.2 8.9 -0.34 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
MANNITOL 18 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
MANNITOL 18 Seed Oil *
MANNOSE 3 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Fruit 4800.0 116000.0 5.20 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Seed *
NIACIN 39 Fruit 10.0 75.0 0.19 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
OCTACOSAN-1-OL 0 Fruit *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit 11400.0 332000.0 2.08 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Fruit Juice *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Plant *
P-HYDROXYBENZALDEHYDE 4 Plant *
P-OXYBENZALDEHYDE 0 Wood List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
P-OXYBENZOIC-ACID 0 Wood List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Fruit 3800.0 87000.0 0.99 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiproliferant 5 *
Antiprostaglandin 2 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 3 *
Antiprostatotic 1 *
Antiprotozoal 1 *
Antipsoriac 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipurpuric 1 *
Antipyretic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular 13 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretinopathic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiretinotic 1 *
AntiReye's 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirheumatic 7 *
Antirhinitic 1 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antiseptic 6 Martindale's 28th