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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Apium graveolens (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Celery
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Seed 7.0 10.0 -0.83 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
GAMMA-TERPINEOL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 3000.0 5000.0 *
GAMMA-TERPINEOL 0 Seed 57.0 125.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GAMMA-TERPINEOL 0 Seed Essent. Oil 5000.0 *
GENTISIC-ACID 8 Leaf Griffiths, L. A. 1959. On the Distribution of Gentisic Acid in Green Plants. J. Exp. Biol. 10: 437.
GERANIOL-ACETATE 0 Seed Essent. Oil 400.0 -1.05 *
GERANIOL-ACETATE 0 Shoot *
GERANIOL-BUTYRATE 0 Shoot *
GERANYL-ACETATE 5 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GERANYL-BUTYRATE 3 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GLUCOSE 7 Plant *
GLUCOSE 7 Shoot *
GLUCOSIDASE 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Shoot *
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Pt 860.0 18285.0 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLUTAMIC-ACID(FREE) 0 Seed Wealth of India.
GLUTAMINE 5 Root List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GLYCINE 12 Pt 210.0 4290.0 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLYCOLIC-ACID 4 Root *
GRAVEOBIOSIDE-A 0 Seed *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Respirastimulant 1 Martindale's 29th
Respirodepressant 1 *
Roborant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Rodenticide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Scabicide 2 Merck 11th Edition
Schizophrenigenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Scolicide 1 Martindale's 29th
Secretogogue 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.
Secretolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Secretomotor 1 *
Sedative 32 Ortiz de Urbina, A.V., Martin*, M.L., Montero, M.J., Moran, A., and San Roman, L. 1988. Sedating and Antipyretic Activity of the Essential Oil of Calamintha sylvatica subsp. Ascendens. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 25: 165-171, 1989.
Sequestrant 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Serotoninergic 4 Jim Duke's personal files.
Sialogogue 1 Martindale's 29th
Soap 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spasmogenic 4 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Spermicide 3 Martindale's 28th
Spermigenic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Spinoconvulsant 1 *
Sprout-Inhibitor 2 Duke, J.A.. Personal Communication.