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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
MANNOSE-6-PHOSPHATE-REDUCTASE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MENTHONE 30 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MENTHONE 30 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MERCURY 1 Root 0.0 0.0 -0.42 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
METHIONINE 15 Pt 50.0 1120.0 not available USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
METHYL-AMINE 1 Stem not available 6.4 not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-AMINE 1 Pt not available 6.4 not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-BUTYLBENZENE 0 Seed not available not available not available Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
METHYL-PHENYLKETONE 0 Seed 55.0 90.0 not available Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
METHYL-PHTHALIDES 2 Seed not available not available not available Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
MOLYBDENUM 2 Root not available 0.1 -0.46 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
MUCILAGE 3 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
MUFA 13 Pt 270.0 5035.0 not available USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MYRCENE 22 Fruit Essent. Oil 2000.0 61000.0 0.92 Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE 22 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 14000.0 -0.31 Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE 22 Root Essent. Oil not available 18000.0 -0.42 Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE 22 Seed 40.0 1830.0 -0.02 Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE 22 Seed Essent. Oil 2000.0 61000.0 -0.07 Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE 22 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE 22 Stem Essent. Oil not available 18000.0 1.00 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 *