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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
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Seed Essent. Oil 1000.0 -1.01 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit Essent. Oil 3000.0 14000.0 -0.30 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Leaf Essent. Oil 1000.0 -0.84 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Root Essent. Oil 69000.0 1.00 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Seed 1.0 420.0 -0.37 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Seed Essent. Oil 5000.0 14000.0 -0.65 *
ALPHA-TERPINYL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINYL-PROPIONATE 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Leaf 136.0 266.0 -0.23 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Plant 0.0 64.0 -1.00 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Seed *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Shoot 0.0 64.0 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Pt 3.0 67.0 1.00 *
ALUMINUM 5 Root 0.3 9.0 -0.31 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
AMMONIA 0 Stem 19600.0 *
AMMONIA 0 Pt 15480.0 *
ANGELIC-ACID 1 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antistomatitic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic 4 *
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 *
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 *
Antithrombogenic 1 *
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 *
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 *