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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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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 *
CAMPHOR 41 Essential Oil *
CAMPHOR 41 Fruit 100.0 1300.0 1.65 *
CAMPHOR 41 Seed Essent. Oil 58300.0 1.00 *
CAPRINALDEHYDE 0 Fruit Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CAR-3-ENE 0 Essential Oil *
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 *
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 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 3610.0 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Plant 305.0 320.0 -0.68 Abstract (See species file)
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Shoot *
CHOLINE 20 Seed 1387.0 -0.27 *
CHROMIUM 24 Seed 28.8 3.51 *
CINNAMIC-ACID 18 Plant 40.0 1.00 Abstract (See species file)
CIS-FERULIC-ACID 0 Fruit 1360.0 Abstract (See species file)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Bradycardiac 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchoprotectant 1 *
Bronchorelaxant 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bufocide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist 10 *
Calcium-Antagonist? 1 Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Calcium-Channel-Blocker 1 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Cancer-Preventive 44 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 11 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Candidistat 3 *
Capillarigenic 1 *
Capillariprotective 2 Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic 8 *
Carcinogenic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Cardiac 1 Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Cardiodepressant 2 Martindale's 29th
Cardiomyopathogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Cardioprotective 9 *