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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed *
PECTIN 24 Fruit 605.0 4640.0 -0.58 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 2105.0 16200.0 3.94 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PHYTOL 1 Fruit *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Fruit 128.0 -1.05 *
POLYSACCHARIDE-S1 0 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
POLYSACCHARIDE-S2 0 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
POLYSACCHARIDE-S3 0 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
POLYSACCHARIDE-S4 0 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
POPULNIN 0 Fruit *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 2325.0 17900.0 0.00 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 14300.0 110000.0 0.01 *
RHAMNOSE 0 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
RHOIFOLIN 2 Fruit *
RHOIFOLIN 2 Plant Gruenwald, J. et al. 1998. PDR for Herbal Medicine. 1st ed. Medical Economics Co., Montvale, NJ. 1244 pp. (abbreviated as PHR or Physicians Herbal Reference in my mind)
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 1.0 7.3 0.49 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
RUTIN 87 Fruit *
SABAL-SERRULATA-ACIDIC-POLYSACCHARIDE 0 Fruit 6000.0 *
SELENIUM 60 Fruit 0.3 2.6 0.26 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SERENOA-POLYPRENOL-2 0 Fruit 5.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiviral 12 *
Antiviral? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiyeast 1 *
Anxiolytic 6 *
AP-1-Inhibitor 1 *
Apoptotic 8 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor 2 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Arrhythmigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Artemicide 4 *
Arteriodilator 1 Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Ascaricide 1 *
Asthma-preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent 1 Martindale's 28th
Bacteristat 1 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker 1 *
Beta-Blocker 1 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor 2 *
Calcium-Antagonist 2 *
Calcium-Antagonist? 1 Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.