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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |