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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-COPAENE 0 Root 8.0 20.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-COPAENE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
BETA-CYMOL 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Root 0.0 90.0 -1.00 *
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Root Essent. Oil *
BETA-EUDESMOL 13 Root 1.0 21.0 1.00 *
BETA-EUDESMOL 13 Root Essent. Oil *
BETA-FARNESENE 0 Root 5.0 15.0 -0.58 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-FARNESENE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
BETA-HIMACHALENE 0 Root 0.0 12.0 *
BETA-MYRCENE 2 Root *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Fruit *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Root 50.0 5320.0 1.00 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Root Essent. Oil *
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit *
BETA-PINENE 13 Root 2.0 2400.0 2.07 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Root Essent. Oil *
BETA-PINENE 13 Seed Essent. Oil *
BETA-SELINENE 3 Root *
BETA-SESQUIPHELLANDRENE 5 Root 0.0 7.0 -1.00 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Rubefacient 1 Martindale's 29th
Sclerosant 1 Martindale's 29th
Secretolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Secretomotor 1 *
Sedative 17 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Serotoninergic 1 Martindale's 28th
Sialogogue 1 Martindale's 29th
Soap 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spasmogenic 4 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Spermicide 2 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Stomachic 2 *
Sunscreen 3 Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Suppository 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Surfactant 1 Schulz, V, Hansel, R and Tyler, VE. 1998. Rational Phytotherapy - A Physician's Guide to Herbal Medicine. 3rd ed. 1st English Edition. Translated by Terry C. Telger. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. 306 pp.
Sweetener 4 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Teratogenic 1 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Termiticide 2 *
Termitifuge 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Inducer 1 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 1 Hu, C. Q., Lee, K. S. 1992. Coumarins From the Roots of Seseli mairei and Inhibition of DNA Topoisomerase II Activity. Tianran Chanwu Yanjiu Yu Kaifa, 4: 6-10.