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
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
Dye	1	Merck 11th Edition
Emetic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Fungicide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	2	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 210.
Hepatotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypoglycemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	2	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Interferonogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Juvabional	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvistat	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	3	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lyase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MDR-Inhibitor	1	Critchfield, J. W., Welsh, C. J., Phang, J. M., Yeh, G. C. 1994. Modulation of Adriamycin Accumulation and Efflux by Flavonoids in HCT-15 Colon Cells. Activation of P-Glycoprotein as a Putative Mechanism. Biochem Pharmacol, 48(7): 1437-1445.
Metal-Chelator	2	McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.