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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
CIS-VERBENOL 0 Root Essent. Oil *
CONIFERIN 2 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
CONIFERIN 2 Root Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
CRYPTONE 0 Root 16.0 50.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CRYPTONE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
CUMINYL-ALCOHOL 0 Root 2.0 *
CUMINYL-ALCOHOL 0 Root Essent. Oil *
CUMINYL-ALDEHYDE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
CUPARENE 1 Root 3.0 10.0 1.00 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CUPARENE 1 Root Essent. Oil *
CYMEN-8-OL 0 Root 6.0 18.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CYMENE 0 Root *
D-ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 0 Root 15.0 2660.0 *
D-ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 0 Seed 1140.0 7220.0 -1.00 Wealth of India.
DECA-TRANS-2,TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Root *
DECAN-2-ONE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
DEHYDROASCORBIC-ACID 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
DEHYDRODEOXYANGELICAN 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
DELTA-3-CARENE 8 Root 30.0 505.0 1.41 *
DELTA-CADINENE 9 Root 1.0 101.0 1.41 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Flatugenic 1 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 33 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fumigant 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Fungicide 24 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 3 *
GABA-nergic 1 *
Gastroprotective 2 *
Genotoxic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Glucogonogenic 1 LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The
Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
GST-Inducer 1 *
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic 1 *
Hemostatic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 *
Hepatoprotective 12 *
Hepatotoxic 2 Martindale's 29th
Hepatotropic 1 *