Plant Conium maculatum (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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
N-ACETYL-(-)-CONIINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYL-(+)-CONIINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYL-(-)-CONIINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Fairbairn, J. W., Suwal, P. N. 1961. The Alkaloids of Hemlock (Conium maculatum L.). II. Evidence for a Rapid Turnover of the Major Alkaloids. Phytochemistry, 11: 38-46.
N-METHYL-(-)-CONIINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Link, R. P. 1975. Toxic Plants, Rodenticides, Herbicides and Yellow Fat Disease. Diseases of Swine Dunne HW: Lemon Ad(eds) Iowa State Univ. Press, Ames Iowa, 4th ed.: 861.
PENTOSANS	0	Plant	not available	66000.0	-1.16	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	206000.0	249000.0	0.14	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOCONHYDRINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URONIC-ACIDS	0	Plant	not available	33000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XYLOSE	3	Plant	not available	46000.0	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
Antistaphylococcic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antistomatitic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antisunburn	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antithiamin	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithromboxane	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithyroid	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitumor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	2	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antiulcer	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiviral	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Autotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	2	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.