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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-EUDESMOL 0 Seed 76.0 225.0 *
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 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALPHA-IONONE 5 Plant *
ALPHA-IONONE 5 Seed Essent. Oil 500.0 *
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 2000.0 0.43 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Seed Essent. Oil 2000.0 -0.86 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit Essent. Oil 10000.0 -0.72 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf Essent. Oil 2000.0 -0.74 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Root Essent. Oil 179000.0 0.77 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Seed 300.0 -0.47 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Seed Essent. Oil 10000.0 10500.0 -0.67 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Stem Essent. Oil 14000.0 -1.00 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Et 12000.0 14000.0 -1.00 *
ALPHA-SANTALOL 2 Seed *
ALPHA-SELINENE 3 Seed 95.0 250.0 *
ALPHA-SELINENE 3 Seed Essent. Oil 20500.0 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Fruit Essent. Oil 1000.0 -0.83 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
COX-1-Inhibitor 4 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 8 *
Culicide 3 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 6 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A1-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor 3 *
Cytoprotective 2 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic 14 Planta Medica, 57: A113, 1991.
Cytotoxic (Breast) 3 Saqib, Q. N., Hui, Y. H., Anderson, J. E. and McLaughlin, J. L. 1990. Bioactive Furanocoumarins from the Berries of Zanthoxylum americanum. Phytotherapy Research 4(6): 216-219.
Cytotoxic (Colon) 3 Saqib, Q. N., Hui, Y. H., Anderson, J. E. and McLaughlin, J. L. 1990. Bioactive Furanocoumarins from the Berries of Zanthoxylum americanum. Phytotherapy Research 4(6): 216-219.
Cytotoxic (Lung) 2 Saqib, Q. N., Hui, Y. H., Anderson, J. E. and McLaughlin, J. L. 1990. Bioactive Furanocoumarins from the Berries of Zanthoxylum americanum. Phytotherapy Research 4(6): 216-219.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 4 Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent 3 *
Dentifrice 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Deodorant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermal 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic 5 *
Detoxicant 2 *