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
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 *

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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
Insulinogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinotonic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant	5	Duke, 1992 *
JNK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	2	Russell, G. B., Phytochemical resources for crop protection, N. Z. J. Technol., 2, 1986, 127-134.
Larvistat	1	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Laxative	6	Duke, 1992 *
Leptingenic	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
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lithogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lubricant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
MAO-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
MAPK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Memorigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.