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Common Names
Saw Palmetto; Scrub-Palmetto
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERENOA-POLYPRENOL-3 | 0 | Fruit | not available | 35.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SILICON | 4 | Fruit | 1.0 | 7.8 | -0.58 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SODIUM | 1 | Fruit | 65.0 | 495.0 | -0.14 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| SORBITOL | 11 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| SPHINGOLIPIDES | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Fruit | 720.0 | 2305.0 | -0.13 | Duke, 1992 * |
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STEROLS | 0 | Exocarp | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STEROLS | 0 | Mesocarp | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STIGMASTEROL | 12 | Fruit | 12.0 | 38.0 | -0.65 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SUGARS | 0 | Fruit | 13000.0 | 100000.0 | -0.47 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| SYRINGALDEHYDE | 4 | Wood | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| SYRINGIC-ACID | 6 | Wood | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| TANNIN | 35 | Root | not available | 75800.0 | -0.02 | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| TANNIN | 35 | Stem | not available | 54800.0 | -0.51 | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| TETRACOSANOL | 0 | Fruit | 1.6 | 5.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| THIAMIN | 31 | Fruit | 0.6 | 5.0 | -0.04 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| THIAMINE | 0 | Fruit | 0.7 | 5.0 | 0.73 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRIACONTAN-1-OL | 1 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRICONTANOL | 0 | Fruit | 13.0 | 42.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiproliferant | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprostaglandin | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprostatadenomic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Antiprostatitic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprostatotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprotozoal | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antipsoriac | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Antipurpuric | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiReye's | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antirheumatic | 7 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antirhinitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiscorbutic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antiscotomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiseptic | 6 | Martindale's 28th |