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

Common Names

Coriander; Chinese Parsley; Cilantro

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
CAMPHENE	9	Fruit	2.0	155.0	-0.29	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CAMPHENE	9	Seed Essent. Oil	2100.0	7600.0	1.30	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Fruit	100.0	1300.0	1.65	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	58300.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRINALDEHYDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CAR-3-ENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	549900.0	603240.0	-0.96	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	73000.0	589000.0	-0.18	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARVONE	19	Fruit	21.0	26.0	-0.50	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Fruit	1.0	8.0	-0.40	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	3610.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Plant	305.0	320.0	-0.68	Abstract (See species file)
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Seed	not available	1387.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Seed	not available	28.8	3.51	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID	18	Plant	not available	40.0	1.00	Abstract (See species file)
CIS-FERULIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	1360.0	not available	Abstract (See species file)

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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
AntiADD	2	Martindale's 29th
Antiadenomic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadrenalinic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiadrenergic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiaflatoxin	7	Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE	2	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
Antiaggregant	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic	5	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antialdosteronic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialkalotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiallergic	10	J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran?	2	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.