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

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Celery

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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
ALPHA-EUDESMOL	0	Seed	76.0	225.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE	2	Leaf	266.0	2500.0	3.78	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-HUMULENE	2	Seed	20.0	33.0	not available	Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALPHA-IONONE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-IONONE	5	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID	15	Seed	1600.0	2554.0	-0.28	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-P-DIMETHYL-STYRENE	0	Seed	170.0	270.0	1.39	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE	11	Fruit	not available	2000.0	0.43	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE	11	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	-0.86	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	10000.0	-0.72	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	-0.74	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Root Essent. Oil	not available	179000.0	0.77	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Seed	not available	300.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Seed Essent. Oil	10000.0	10500.0	-0.67	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Stem Essent. Oil	not available	14000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Et	12000.0	14000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SANTALOL	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SELINENE	3	Seed	95.0	250.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SELINENE	3	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	20500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	1000.0	-0.83	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Cardiomyopathogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Cardioprotective	12	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotonic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiovascular	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Carminative	4	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catabolic	3	Tramil
Cerebrotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cerebrotoxic	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 24.
Chemopreventive	11	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	7	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic	15	Duke, 1992 *
Cholesterolytic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cholinergic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Chronotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cicatrizant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Circulatory-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Circulotonic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Clastogenic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.