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
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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
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.