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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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
LIMONENE 60 Seed Essent. Oil 350000.0 721600.0 2.14 Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE 60 Stem Essent. Oil not available 695000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE 60 Et not available 695000.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL 0 Seed not available 1.0 -0.71 Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL 53 Seed 1.0 90.0 -0.47 Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL 53 Seed Essent. Oil not available 14800.0 -0.50 Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL-ACETATE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LINALYL-ACETATE 7 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LINASE 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Leaf 60.0 1132.0 -1.19 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed 178000.0 46560.0 -0.52 Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Pt 690.0 12875.0 not available USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Seed not available 2000.0 -0.54 Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN 78 Leaf not available 80.0 -0.58 Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN 78 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN 78 Pt 0.0 400.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-APIOSYL-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-APIOSYL-GLUCOSIDE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-APIOSYL-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-BETA-GLUCOSIDE 5 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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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
Antimenorrhagic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 8 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Antimetastatic (Stomach) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimigraine 5 Martindale's 29th
Antimite 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimitotic 10 Gawron, A. and Glowniak, K. 1987. Cytostatic Activity of Coumarins in vitro. Planta Medica 1987: 526.
Antimitral-valve-prolapse 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimononuccleotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antimorphinic 1 Martindale's 28th
AntiMS 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic 32 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimyalgic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimycoplasmotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antimycotic 2 Martindale's 28th
Antimyocarditic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antinauseant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antineoplastic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antinephritic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antinephrolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antineuralgic 3 Duke, 1992 *