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
FERULIC-ACID	61	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.
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Fruit	not available	130000.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Fruit	not available	400000.0	0.35	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FUCOSE	0	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.
GALACTOSE	1	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.
GERANYL-GERANIOL	11	Fruit	not available	16.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	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.
GLUCURONIC-ACID	4	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.
GLYCEROL	8	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXACOSAN-1-OL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXACOSANOL	0	Fruit	2.0	7.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Fruit	9.0	66.0	-0.27	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	By assumption; if a glycoside is reported, it is automatically assumed that the aglycone is present also in the plant, though sometimes in traces only.
KAEMPFEROL-3-O-GLUCOSIDE	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID	7	Fruit	12080.0	240000.0	2.51	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID	7	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Fruit	1840.0	36000.0	0.15	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Fruit	240.0	770.0	-0.82	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
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Kidney)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas)	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Prostate)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	8	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.