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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
MYRCENE 22 Fruit *
MYRCENE 22 Root 7.0 380.0 1.41 *
MYRCENE 22 Root Essent. Oil *
MYRCENE 22 Seed Essent. Oil *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Fruit *
NONADECANE 0 Root 0.0 5.0 1.00 *
NONAN-1-AL 0 Root Essent. Oil *
NONAN-2-ONE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
NONANAL 0 Root Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
O-CYMENE 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
O-CYMENE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
OCTADEC-9-EN-18-OLIDE 0 Root Essent. Oil 20000.0 *
OCTADECAN-1-OL 0 Root *
OCTADECANE 0 Root 0.0 5.0 *
OCTAN-1-AL 0 Root Essent. Oil *
OCTANAL 0 Root 1.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
OCTYL-ISOVALERATE 2 Root Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
OCTYL-ISOVALERATE 2 Root Essent. Oil *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 133000.0 0.11 *
OLEIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER 1 Root Essent. Oil *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticancer (Breast) 3 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Colon) 1 *
Anticancer (Forestomach) 1 *
Anticancer (Liver) 1 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticancer (Skin) 1 *
Anticarcinogenic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticariogenic 4 Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticholinergic 1 *
Anticholinesterase 1 L. Gracza (1985) as cited by Buchbauer re antiacetylcholinesterase.
Anticolic 1 *
Anticonstrictive 1 *
Anticonvulsant 7 *
Anticoronary 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidementia 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antidepressant 5 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antidepressant? 1 *
Antidermatitic 3 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Antidiabetic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.