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Common Names
Coriander; Chinese Parsley; Cilantro
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SABINENE | 5 | Fruit | 1.0 | 83.0 | -0.51 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| SABINENE | 5 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | 1400.0 | -0.49 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SACCHAROSE | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| SCOPOLETIN | 44 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SCOPOLETIN | 44 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SERINE | 1 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SODIUM | 1 | Fruit | 308.0 | 430.0 | -0.14 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| SODIUM | 1 | Leaf | 940.0 | 7581.0 | 0.70 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| STARCH | 5 | Fruit | not available | 100000.0 | -0.30 | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Fruit | 1100.0 | 1207.0 | -0.20 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | 2000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STEARIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STIGMASTEROL | 12 | Fruit | not available | 180.0 | 1.32 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| SUCROSE | 14 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SUGARS | 0 | Fruit | not available | 200000.0 | -0.06 | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |
| SYRINGALDEHYDE | 4 | Plant | not available | 0.1 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TANNIN | 35 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |
| TERPINEN-4-OL | 23 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TERPINEN-4-OL | 23 | Fruit | 6.0 | 80.0 | -0.35 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| TERPINEN-4-OL | 23 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | 13800.0 | -0.53 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Gram(+)icide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gram(-)icide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GST-Inducer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hallucinogenic | 1 | Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp. |
| Hemolytic | 1 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| Hemostat | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hemostatic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Hepatocarcinogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatomagenic | 2 | Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp. |
| Hepatoprotective | 16 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatotonic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatotoxic | 3 | Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp. |
| Hepatotropic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Herbicide | 15 | 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. |
| HIF-1alpha-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Histamine-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Histaminic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| HIV-RT-Inhibitor | 1 | Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990. |
| Hormonal | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |