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Common Names
Garden Angelica; Angelica; Wild Parsnip
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MYRCENE | 22 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MYRCENE | 22 | Root | 7.0 | 380.0 | 1.41 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MYRCENE | 22 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MYRCENE | 22 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MYRISTIC-ACID | 6 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NONADECANE | 0 | Root | 0.0 | 5.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| NONAN-1-AL | 0 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NONAN-2-ONE | 0 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NONANAL | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| O-CYMENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| O-CYMENE | 0 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| OCTADEC-9-EN-18-OLIDE | 0 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | 20000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| OCTADECAN-1-OL | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| OCTADECANE | 0 | Root | 0.0 | 5.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| OCTAN-1-AL | 0 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| OCTANAL | 0 | Root | not available | 1.0 | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| OCTYL-ISOVALERATE | 2 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| OCTYL-ISOVALERATE | 2 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| OLEIC-ACID | 18 | Seed | not available | 133000.0 | 0.11 | Duke, 1992 * |
| OLEIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER | 1 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiophthalmic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antiotitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antioxidant | 22 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Antioxidant Synergist | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Antiparkinsonian | 3 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antipellagric | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antipeptic | 2 | Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176) |
| Antiperoxidant | 2 | Planta Medica, 57: A54, 1991. |
| Antiphenylketonuric | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antipityriasic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antiplasmodial | 1 | Rukunga, G. and Simons, A. J. 2006. The Potential of Plants as a Source of Antimalarial Agents - A Review. Africa Herbal Antimalaria Meeting. PlantaPhile Publications, Berlin. 72 pp. |
| Antiplatelet | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antipneumonic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antipolio | 1 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Antiprogestational | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antiproliferant | 6 | Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY. |
| Antiproliferative | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprostaglandin | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprostatadenomic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Antiprostatitic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |