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

Common Names

Celery

How this plant is used

Food

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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
FIBER	15	Seed	106750.0	138586.0	0.03	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FIBER	15	Pt	6900.0	158000.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Fruit	not available	171000.0	0.40	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Fruit	not available	320000.0	-0.97	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVONOIDS	0	Leaf	not available	420.0	-0.95	Duke, 1992 *
FOLIACIN	0	Pt	0.3	5.6	not available	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FORMALDEHYDE	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
FORMALDEHYDE	12	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FUMARIC-ACID	7	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FUMARIC-ACID	7	Pt	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURANOCOUMARINS	0	Leaf	1.4	2.3	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
FURANOCOUMARINS	0	Pt	0.9	2.9	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
GALACTURONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
GAMMA-DECALACTONE	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
GAMMA-SELINENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-SELINENE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiarrhythmic	11	Merck 11th Edition
Antiarteriosclerotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	14	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	16	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatheromic	1	Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillary	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	46	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibradykinic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 366.
Antibronchitic	1	Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Antibronchoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibrucellosic	1	Gawron, A., Gorski, G., Glowniak*, K. 1989. Increased proliferation of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated human leucocytes after 8-methoxypsoralen treatment. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 194-195, 1990.
Anticalculic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	9	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.