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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PENTADECAN-1-AL 0 Root Essent. Oil *
PENTADECANAL 0 Root Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
PENTADECANOIC-ACID 1 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
PENTADECANOLIDE 0 Root 15.0 37.0 *
PENTADECANOLIDE 0 Root Essent. Oil 60000.0 *
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Seed 427000.0 -0.49 *
PEUCENIN-7-METHYL-ETHER 0 Root Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
PHELLANDRAL 0 Root 0.0 4.0 *
PHELLOPTERIN 2 Plant *
PHELLOPTERIN 2 Root Phytochem. Anal. 3(1):42-48. 1992
PHENYLALANINE 7 Leaf *
PIMPINELLIN 7 Fruit *
PIMPINELLIN 7 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
PIPERITONE 7 Root 0.0 3.0 *
PRANGOLARIN 0 Plant *
PRANGOLARIN 0 Root *
PRANGOLARIN 0 Seed 12.0 75.0 Wealth of India.
PROTEIN 0 Seed 319000.0 325000.0 0.81 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Bufocide 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist 23 *
Cancer-Preventive 25 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 8 *
Candidistat 3 *
Carcinogenic 5 *
Carcinogenic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Cardioprotective 1 *
Carminative 3 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 *
Catabolic 1 Tramil
Chemopreventive 4 *
Cholagogue 3 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic 7 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.
Cholesterolytic 1 *
Cicatrizant 2 *
Clastogenic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Active 2 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
CNS-Depressant 5 *
CNS-Inhibitor 1 *