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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
PENTENYLBENZENE 0 Seed Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
PENTOSANE 0 Root 1600.0 -1.00 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PENTYL-BENZENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 9000.0 *
PENTYL-BENZENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 2000.0 *
PENTYL-BENZENE 0 Seed 170.0 270.0 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
PENTYL-BENZENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil 200.0 9000.0 *
PERILLALDEHYDE 11 Seed 1.0 -0.90 *
PEROXIDASE 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Seed 2400.0 657000.0 0.50 *
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil *
PHELLOPTERIN 2 Leaf *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Leaf 190.0 4105.0 -1.59 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 979.0 4660.0 0.44 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Root 470.0 7900.0 0.77 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 980.0 6843.0 0.39 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Pt 201.0 6849.0 1.36 *
PHTHALIDES 0 Plant *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Seed 600.0 -0.49 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Pt 60.0 1120.0 *
PINOCARVEOL 0 Seed Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Bradycardiac 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchoprotectant 2 *
Bronchorelaxant 3 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bruchifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Bruchiphobe 3 *
Bufocide 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist 18 *
Calcium-Antagonist? 1 Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Calcium-Channel-Blocker 1 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 3 *
Cancer-Preventive 58 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 16 Martindale's 28th
Candidistat 3 *
Capillarigenic 1 *
Capillariprotective 2 Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic 10 *
Carcinogenic? 2 Martindale's 29th
Cardiac 2 Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Cardiodepressant 3 *