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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
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
Antimanic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimelanogenic 2 *
Antimenopausal 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimenorrhagic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic (Stomach) 1 *
Antimigraine 1 Martindale's 29th
Antimite 1 *
Antimitotic 8 Gawron, A. and Glowniak, K. 1987. Cytostatic Activity of Coumarins in vitro. Planta Medica 1987: 526.
Antimorphinic 1 Martindale's 28th
AntiMS 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic 15 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimycotic 2 Martindale's 28th
Antinauseant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antinicotinic 1 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.
Antinitrosaminic 5 Ki Soon Rhee. Oilseed Food Ingredients Used To Minimize Oxidative Flavor Deterioration in Meat Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.18.
Antinociceptive 5 Rao, V.S.N., Menezes, A.M.S., Viana, G.S.B. 1990. Effect of myrcene on nociception in mice. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 877-878, 1990.
Antinyctalopic 1 Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiobesity 1 *
Antionychyotic 1 Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
Antiophidic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.