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
MANGANESE	14	Fruit	18.0	19.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Leaf	not available	64.0	-0.35	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
METHIONINE	15	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Fruit	13.0	169.0	-0.36	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
MYRCENE	22	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	6500.0	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Fruit	200.0	219.0	-0.26	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MYRISTICIN	31	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTICIN	31	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
MYRTENAL	5	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	1600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEPTADECANE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTADECANE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TETRADECANOIC-ACID	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	5700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRIACONTANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOCNIDILIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	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.
NEROL	10	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL	10	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NEROL	10	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	6150.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL-ACETATE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	1900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROLIDOL	11	Fruit	14.0	17.0	-0.72	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.

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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
Essential	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant	12	Duke, 1992 *
Fatal	1	Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	1	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor	36	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	33	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	4	Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroirritant	1	Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Genotoxic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathione-Depleting	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	2	Martindale's 29th