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Plant Apium graveolens (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Celery
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
3-ISOBUTYLIDENE-PHTHALIDE 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
3-ISOBUTYLIDENE-PHTHALIDE 0 Shoot not available 0.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
3-ISOVALERIDENE-3A,4-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
3-ISOVALERIDENE-PHTHALIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
3-ISOVALIDENE-3A,4-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Essential Oil not available 255.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
3-ISOVALIDENE-3A,4-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Leaf not available 0.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
3-ISOVALIDENE-3A,4-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available 255.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
3-ISOVALIDENE-3A,4-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Shoot not available 0.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
3-ISOVALIDENE-PHTHALIDE 0 Plant not available 0.0 not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
3-ISOVALIDENE-PHTHALIDE 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
3-ISOVALIDENE-PHTHALIDE 0 Shoot not available 0.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
3-METHYL-4-ETHYL-HEXANE 0 Root Essent. Oil not available 124000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
3-N-BUTYL-4,5-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
3-N-BUTYL-PHTHALIDE 10 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 108000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
3-N-BUTYL-PHTHALIDE 10 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 40000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
3-N-BUTYL-PHTHALIDE 10 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
3-N-BUTYL-PHTHALIDE 10 Seed Essent. Oil not available 108000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
3-N-BUTYLHEXAHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Seed not available not available not available Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
4-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Seed 57.0 1500.0 not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
5,6,7-TRIMETHYLPSORALEN 0 Pt not available not available not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antigallstone 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic 4 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 4 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antigliomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglossitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglutamaergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglycosuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigranulocytopenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey 1 Martindale's 29th
AntiGTF 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihalitosic 1 American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihangover 5 Duke, 1992 *