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Plant Ammi visnaga (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Visnaga
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
OCTADECENOIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PEUCENIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 120000.0 180000.0 0.95 Duke, 1992 *
PYRANOCOUMARIN 0 Seed 2000.0 5000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-0-GLYCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-0-RUTINOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNAZIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNETIN 18 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOCITRIN 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN 87 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN 87 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RUTINOSE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SAMIDIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SHIKIMIC-ACID 14 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antivitiligic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antixerotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Anxiolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor 2 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide 2 Duke, 1992 *
ATPase-Inhibitor 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Bacteriostatic 1 Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis.
Bacteristat 3 Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardiac 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchodilator 1 Martindale's 29th
Bronchorelaxant 1 Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Bruchifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Bruchiphobe 1 Duke, 1992 *
Bufocide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist 5 Duke, 1992 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive 17 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 2 Planta Medica, 57: A43, 1991.