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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Coriandrum sativum (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Coriander; Chinese Parsley; Cilantro
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
NIACIN 39 Fruit 21.0 23.0 -0.50 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NIACIN 39 Leaf 13.0 136.0 0.47 *
NICKEL 3 Fruit 2.4 -0.05 *
NONAN-1-AL 0 Essential Oil *
NONANAL 0 Fruit 1.0 18.0 -0.06 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NONYL-ALDEHYDE 0 Leaf Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
OCIMENE 2 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OCTADECA-5,6-DIENOIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil *
OCTADECANE 0 Fruit Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
OCTANOL 0 Leaf 504.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit 39930.0 167819.0 0.81 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 94000.0 -0.21 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed Oil *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Fruit 120.0 -0.30 *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Leaf 50.0 -0.47 Watt, J.M. and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. 1962. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd. Edinburg & London. 1457 pp.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Fruit 16.0 -0.70 *
P-CYMENE 16 Essential Oil *
P-CYMENE 16 Fruit 74.0 728.0 -0.48 *
P-CYMENE 16 Seed Essent. Oil 900.0 -1.55 *
P-CYMOL 0 Seed Essent. Oil 67300.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiprostatotic 1 *
Antiprotozoal 1 *
Antipruritic 3 Merck 11th Edition
Antipsoriac 6 Martindale's 29th
Antipsychotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antipurpuric 1 *
Antipyretic 3 *
Antiradicular 15 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinopathic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiretinotic 1 *
Antirheumatalgic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antirheumatic 7 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antirhinitic 2 *
Antisalmonella 4 *
Antiscleromyxoedemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiscoliotic 1 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th