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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 * |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
---|---|---|
Antikeratitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antikeshan | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
Antiketotic | 4 | Merck 11th Edition |
Antilactobacillic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antilepric | 2 | Martindale's 28th |
Antileukemic | 10 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antileukonychic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antileukoplakic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antileukotriene | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
Antileukotriene-D4 | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antilipolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antilipoperoxidant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antilisteria | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antilithic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antilupus | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
AntiLyme | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antilymphocytic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Antilymphomic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antimaculitic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antimalarial | 2 | Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary**, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum*. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986. |