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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Apium graveolens (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Celery
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
LUTEOLIN-GLUCOSIDE 0 Seed *
LUTEOLIN-GLYCOSIDE 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
LYSINE 4 Pt 260.0 5410.0 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MAGNESIUM 65 Fruit 153.0 730.0 -0.65 *
MAGNESIUM 65 Leaf 99.0 2650.0 -0.57 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MAGNESIUM 65 Root 140.0 1635.0 -0.49 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
MAGNESIUM 65 Seed 155.0 4903.0 0.77 *
MALIC-ACID 15 Root *
MALIC-ACID 15 Shoot *
MALIC-ACID 15 Pt *
MALONIC-ACID 1 Root Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
MANGANESE 14 Fruit 1.3 6.3 -0.36 *
MANGANESE 14 Root 0.7 23.0 -0.27 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
MANGANESE 14 Seed 1.3 76.0 0.28 *
MANGANESE 14 Pt 1.0 33.0 -1.00 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MANNITOL 18 Leaf *
MANNITOL 18 Plant *
MANNITOL 18 Root 50000.0 0.23 *
MANNITOL 18 Shoot *
MANNITOL 18 Stem 20000.0 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antihyperammonemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperkeratotic 1 *
Antihyperkinetic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 11 *
Antihyperthyroid 2 *
Antihypoglycemic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihysteric 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiichythyotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiielus? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiimplantation 2 *
Antiimpotence 2 Martindale's 29th
Antiinfarctal 1 Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.
Antiinfective 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinfertility 4 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory 47 Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antiinsomniac 6 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiinsomniac? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiinsomnic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.