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

Common Names

Saw Palmetto; Scrub-Palmetto

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
LIPASE	0	Fruit	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.
LUPEN-3-ONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
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	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.
MANNITOL	18	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANNOSE	3	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.
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Fruit	4800.0	116000.0	5.20	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Fruit	11400.0	332000.0	2.08	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXYBENZALDEHYDE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-OXYBENZALDEHYDE	0	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.
P-OXYBENZOIC-ACID	0	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.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	3800.0	87000.0	0.99	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	3	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic	15	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic	8	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	11	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
IKK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	7	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	6	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant	5	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	1	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Insectifuge	4	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insectifuge?	1	Martindale's 28th
Insectiphile	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.