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Plant Apium graveolens (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Celery
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
TRANS-OCIMENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 3000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-OCIMENE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-OCIMENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 20000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-OCIMENE 0 Root Essent. Oil not available 201000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-OCIMENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available 3000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-OCIMENE 0 Stem Essent. Oil not available 67000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-OCIMENE 0 Et not available 67000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-P-MENTHA-1(7),8-DIEN-2-OL 0 Seed not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRANS-P-MENTHA-2,8-DIEN-1-OL 0 Seed not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRIMETHYL-PSORALEN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Pt 90.0 1865.0 not available USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TYROSINE 8 Pt 90.0 1865.0 not available USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
UMBELLIFERONE 22 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
UNDECAN-1-AL 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
UNDECANAL 2 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
URANIUM 1 Root not available 0.1 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
URONIC-ACID 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VALERIC-ACID 9 Flower not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
VALINE 3 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VALINE 3 Pt 260.0 5600.0 not available USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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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
Enterotoxic 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Epinephrininergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 8 Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 8 Duke, 1992 *
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Ferulosys-genic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fibrinolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 2 Martindale's 29th
FLavor 56 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 46 Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 3 Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gastroirritant 1 Martindale's 29th