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
BERGAPTEN	26	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BERGAPTEN	26	Seed	not available	1.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
BERGAPTEN	26	Shoot	not available	145.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BERGAPTEN	26	Pt	0.0	0.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	8.0	36.0	-0.08	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Seed	7.5	36.0	1.82	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Pt	1.0	144.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	5000.0	43000.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	5000.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Seed	55.0	1290.0	0.86	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	5000.0	43000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	35000.0	1.68	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Seed	1.0	875.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	35000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-EUDESMOL	13	Seed	76.0	225.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-HUMULENE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Fruit	not available	2000.0	-0.13	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Seed Essent. Oil	200.0	2000.0	-1.03	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.