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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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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
MANNOSE-6-PHOSPHATE-REDUCTASE 0 Leaf *
MENTHONE 30 Essential Oil *
MENTHONE 30 Seed Essent. Oil *
MERCURY 1 Root 0.0 0.0 -0.42 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
METHIONINE 15 Pt 50.0 1120.0 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
METHYL-AMINE 1 Stem 6.4 *
METHYL-AMINE 1 Pt 6.4 *
METHYL-BUTYLBENZENE 0 Seed Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
METHYL-PHENYLKETONE 0 Seed 55.0 90.0 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
METHYL-PHTHALIDES 2 Seed Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
MOLYBDENUM 2 Root 0.1 -0.46 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
MUCILAGE 3 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
MUFA 13 Pt 270.0 5035.0 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MYRCENE 22 Fruit Essent. Oil 2000.0 61000.0 0.92 *
MYRCENE 22 Leaf Essent. Oil 14000.0 -0.31 *
MYRCENE 22 Root Essent. Oil 18000.0 -0.42 *
MYRCENE 22 Seed 40.0 1830.0 -0.02 *
MYRCENE 22 Seed Essent. Oil 2000.0 61000.0 -0.07 *
MYRCENE 22 Shoot *
MYRCENE 22 Stem Essent. Oil 18000.0 1.00 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticancer (Colon) 2 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 *
Anticancer (Kidney) 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticancer (Liver) 2 *
Anticancer (Lung) 2 *
Anticancer (Prostate) 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticancer (Skin) 2 *
Anticanker 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility 1 Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic 1 *
Anticariogenic 5 Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 11 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic 3 *
AntiCFS 3 *