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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Angelica archangelica (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Garden Angelica; Angelica; Wild Parsnip
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed 1.5 9.5 -0.63 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-PALMITATE 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
BETA-SITOSTERYL-ARACHINATE 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
BETA-THUJENE 0 Root 6900.0 8700.0 *
BETA-THUJENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil 870000.0 *
BICYCLOGERMACRENE 0 Root *
BISABOLANGELONE 2 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
BISABOLENE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
BISABOLOL 0 Root Essent. Oil *
BORNEOL 35 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
BORNEOL 35 Root Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
BORNEOL 35 Root Essent. Oil *
BORNEOL-ACETATE 0 Root *
BORNEOL-ACETATE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
BORNEOL-ISOVALERATE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
BORNYL-ACETATE 12 Root 25.0 75.0 -0.57 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BORNYL-ISOVALERATE 0 Root 0.0 7.0 -1.00 *
BYAKANGELICIN 5 Root 13.0 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
(-)-Chronotropic 2 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
(-)-Inotropic 2 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 5 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 1 *
Abortifacient 1 *
Acaricide 5 *
ACE-Inhibitor 4 *
Acetylcholinergic 1 *
AChE-Inhibitor 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Acidulant 1 Martindale's 28th
Addictive 1 Science News, 145: 294.
Additive 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aggregant 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 10 *
Allelochemic 7 *
Allelopathic 3 Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands.
Allergenic 11 *
Allergenic? 1 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Analgesic 14 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.