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Plant Conium maculatum (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Poison Hemlock; Hemlock; Spotted Hemlock; Fool's Parsley; Carrot Fern; Spotted Parsley
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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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
ALPHA-CONHYRDINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ARABINO-4-O-METHYLGLUCURONOXYLAN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE 0 Plant not available 7000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CONHYDRINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CONIINE 2 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CONIINE 2 Leaf not available not available not available Roberts, M. F. 1980. An Alkaloid from Conium maculatum. Planta Medica, 39: 216.
CONIINE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CONIINE 2 Stem not available not available not available Sadykov, Y. D., Khodzhimatov, M. 1983. Alkaloids of Conium maculatum L. Dokl Akad Nauk Tadzh SSR, 268: 511-515.
DIOSMIN 34 Plant 30000.0 40000.0 0.16 Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Plant not available 10000.0 0.02 Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-PIPERIDINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FALCARINOL-ONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FALCARINONE 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Seed 116000.0 179000.0 -0.46 Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CONICEINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LIGNIN 13 Plant not available 320000.0 1.32 Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-CONIINE 0 Leaf not available 140.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
N-ACETYL-(+)-CONIINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 2 Ichikawa, K., et al. 1991. Isolation and Structure Determination of Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Traditional Thai Medicine, and Syntheses of Their Derivatives. Sankyo Kenkyusho Nempo, 43: 99-110.
Allelochemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiaggregant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial 3 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer 3 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticapillary-Fragility 1 Martindale's 28th
Anticarcinogenic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticlastogen 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticoronary 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiCVI 1 Duke, 1992 *