Plant Apium graveolens (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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Celery

How this plant is used

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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
SUCROSE	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUGARS	0	Fruit	14700.0	70000.0	-0.60	Duke, 1992 *
SUGARS	0	Seed	14700.0	70000.0	0.38	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SULFUR	14	Root	100.0	1000.0	-0.51	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
TARTARIC-ACID	6	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARTARIC-ACID	6	Pt	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	1000.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Seed	1.0	1400.0	0.07	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINENE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL-ACETATE	2	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL-PROPIONATE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOLENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	33000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	-0.69	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Root Essent. Oil	not available	33000.0	-0.68	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
TETRAHYDROPHTHALIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
THIAMIN	31	Pt	0.0	10.0	1.26	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMINE	0	Fruit	0.3	1.2	-1.08	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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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	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist?	1	Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Capillarigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Capillariprotective	2	Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic	10	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *