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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
PINOCARVYL-ACETATE 0 Plant *
PINOCARVYL-ACETATE 0 Seed Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
PIPERIDINE 10 Pt 1.0 *
PIPERITONE 7 Fruit *
PIPERITONE 7 Seed Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
PIPERITONE 7 Seed Essent. Oil *
POLYACETYLENES 0 Root *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 1210.0 5760.0 -1.08 *
POTASSIUM 14 Root 3900.0 56360.0 2.97 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
POTASSIUM 14 Seed 1210.0 15330.0 0.24 *
POTASSIUM 14 Pt 2689.0 57800.0 0.52 *
PROLINE 0 Leaf 170.0 3208.0 -1.16 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROPIONALDEHYDE 2 Leaf 3.0 1050.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
PROPIONALDEHYDE 2 Shoot *
PROPIONIC-ALDEHYDE 0 Plant *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 35490.0 169000.0 0.80 *
PROTEIN 0 Leaf 7000.0 29000.0 -1.82 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 170250.0 203385.0 -0.27 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTEIN 0 Pt 6030.0 194000.0 1.32 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antirheumatitic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirhinitic 1 *
Antisalmonella 7 *
Antiscleromyxoedemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiscoliotic 1 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antiseborrheic 3 *
Antiseptic 32 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
AntiSeptic-Shock 1 *
Antiserotonin 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antishock 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antisickling 4 Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antispare-Tire 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antispasmodic 49 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antistaphylococcic 14 *
Antisteatotic 1 *