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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
HUMULENE 2 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE 2 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE-OXIDE 0 Seed not available not available not available Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
HYPOXANTHINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HYPOXANTHINE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IMPERATORIN 25 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IMPERATORIN 25 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IMPERATORIN 25 Seed not available not available not available Wealth of India.
INDOSTEROL 0 Stem not available 300.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
INDOSTEROL 0 Pt not available 300.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
INOSINE 8 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
INOSINE 8 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
INOSITOL 8 Leaf not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
IRON 6 Fruit 25.0 120.0 -0.05 Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Root 3.6 47.0 -0.37 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
IRON 6 Seed 25.0 571.0 1.95 Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Pt 3.0 347.0 1.29 Duke, 1992 *
ISOAMYL-ALCOHOL 3 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ISOAMYL-ALCOHOL 3 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYLIDENE 0 Leaf not available 32.0 not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antistomatitic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antistress 7 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke 3 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
Antisunburn 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antisyndrome-X 6 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
Antitachycardic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antithiamin 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antithrombogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antithromboxane 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.
Antithyroid 4 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitinnitic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiTNF 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antitoxoplasmotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitrichinosic 1 Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Antitriglyceride 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antitrypanosomic 2 Planta Medica, 57: A44, 1991.
Antitubercular 5 Duke, 1992 *