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Plant Apium graveolens (Apiaceae)

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
SUCROSE 14 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE 14 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SUGARS 0 Fruit 14700.0 70000.0 -0.60 Duke, 1992 *
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 not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Pt not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 1000.0 -0.54 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Seed 1.0 1400.0 0.07 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL-ACETATE 2 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL-PROPIONATE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOLENE 0 Root Essent. Oil not available 33000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 2000.0 -0.69 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 2000.0 -0.59 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Root Essent. Oil not available 33000.0 -0.68 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Seed Essent. Oil not available 2000.0 -0.62 Duke, 1992 *
TETRAHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Seed not available not available not available 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 Duke, 1992 *
THIAMINE 0 Fruit 0.3 1.2 -1.08 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antienteritic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antienterococcic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antienzymatic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiepileptic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antierythemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antiesherichic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiesophagitic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antiestrogenic 7 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antifatigue 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant 19 Duke, 1992 *
Antifertility 3 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifumitory 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th