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
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 *

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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
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.