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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CALCIUM | 28 | Fruit | 605.0 | 4640.0 | 0.18 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| CAMPESTEROL | 2 | Fruit | 28.0 | 90.0 | 0.10 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPRIC-ACID | 3 | Fruit | 1000.0 | 3200.0 | 1.41 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPRIC-ACID | 3 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPRINIC-ACID | 0 | Fruit | not available | 18000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPROIC-ACID | 1 | Fruit | 600.0 | 1920.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPROIC-ACID | 1 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPRYLIC-ACID | 5 | Fruit | 920.0 | 13000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPRYLIC-ACID | 5 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAROTENE | 0 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CERAMIDES | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHROMIUM | 24 | Fruit | 0.2 | 1.4 | -0.31 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| COBALT | 2 | Fruit | 0.6 | 5.0 | 0.07 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| CYCLOARTENOL | 7 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DAUCOSTEROL | 5 | Fruit | 47.0 | 416.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DECANOIC-ACID | 3 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EO | 0 | Fruit | 5400.0 | 20000.0 | -0.43 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FARNESOL | 17 | Fruit | 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. |
| FAT | 0 | Fruit | 3510.0 | 27000.0 | -0.44 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FATTY-ACIDS | 0 | Fruit | 30000.0 | 92000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Flatugenic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| FLavor | 7 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| FPTase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fungicide | 9 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fungistat | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Gastroprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Hemolytic | 1 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| Hemostat | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatomagenic | 1 | Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp. |
| Hepatoprotective | 7 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatotropic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Herbicide | 1 | Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195. |
| HIF-1alpha-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| HIV-RT-Inhibitor | 1 | Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991. |
| Hormonal | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Humectant | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |