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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
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
Insecticide 13 *
Insectifuge 22 Bowers, W.S., Ortego, F., You, X., and Evans, P.H. Insect Repellents From The Chinese Prickly Ash Zanthoxylum bungeanum. Journal of Natural Products, 56(6): 935-938, 1993.
Insectiphile 2 Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinic 1 *
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferonogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 *
Irritant 17 *
Juvabional 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide 2 *
Larvistat 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 4 *
Laxative? 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 7 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 3 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lubricant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 *
Lymphocytogenic 1 Gawron, A., Gorski*, G., Glowniak**, K. 1989. Increased proliferation of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated human leucocytes after 8-methoxypsoralen treatment. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 194-195, 1990.