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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
SUCROSE 14 Plant *
SUCROSE 14 Shoot *
SUGARS 0 Fruit 14700.0 70000.0 -0.60 *
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 *
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Pt *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Leaf Essent. Oil 1000.0 -0.54 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Seed 1.0 1400.0 0.07 *
TERPINENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
TERPINEOL-ACETATE 2 Shoot *
TERPINEOL-PROPIONATE 0 Shoot *
TERPINEOLENE 0 Root Essent. Oil 33000.0 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Fruit Essent. Oil 2000.0 -0.69 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil 2000.0 -0.59 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Root Essent. Oil 33000.0 -0.68 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Seed Essent. Oil 2000.0 -0.62 *
TETRAHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Seed 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 *
THIAMINE 0 Fruit 0.3 1.2 -1.08 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Prolactinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Proliferant 2 *
Prooxidant 4 *
Propecic 5 *
Prostaglandigenic 4 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer 1 Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 6 *
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor 1 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 4 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide 3 Martindale's 29th
Psychoactive 2 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
PTK-Inhibitor 3 *
Pulmonotoxic 1 *
Pyrogenic 1 Conradson, T. B. G., Dixon, C. M. S., Clarke, B., Barnes, P. J. 1987. Cardiovascular Effects of Infused Adenosine in Man: Potentiation by Dipyridamole. Acta Physiol Scand, 129(3): 387-391.
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 3 Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Radioprotective 2 *
Refrigerant 1 Martindale's 28th
Renoirritant 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Renotoxic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Respiraparalytic 1 *