Plant Apium graveolens (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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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
BETA-PINENE	13	Fruit Essent. Oil	5.0	15000.0	-0.60	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	-0.93	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Root Essent. Oil	not available	179000.0	1.36	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Seed	57.0	1530.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Seed Essent. Oil	5000.0	15000.0	-0.74	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Stem Essent. Oil	not available	12000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SELINENE	3	Fruit Essent. Oil	55000.0	325000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SELINENE	3	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	30000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SELINENE	3	Seed	100.0	9750.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SELINENE	3	Seed Essent. Oil	55000.0	325000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SELINENE	3	Stem Essent. Oil	not available	10000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed	not available	210.0	-0.55	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Pt	not available	30.0	not available	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BIACETYL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
BORON	4	Root	4.0	103.0	2.92	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Seed	43.0	61.0	1.75	Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
BROMINE	0	Root	not available	1.0	-1.10	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
BUTYLIDENE-NAPHTHALIDE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYLIDENE-PHTHALIDE	10	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	4000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYLIDENE-PHTHALIDE	10	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	15000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antidote (Cadmium)	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Hypoglycin-A)	1	Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Lead)	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Mercury)	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Paracetamol)	1	Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Paraquat)	1	Martindale's 28th
Antidysgeuzic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidyskinetic	3	Martindale's 28th
Antidysmenorrheic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antidyspeptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysphagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiEBV	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antieczemic	6	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiedemic	12	Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antielastase	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiencephalitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiencephalopathic	7	Martindale's 29th
Antiencephalopathic?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiendotoxic	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.