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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Levisticum officinale (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Lovage
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
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Root Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
PENTACYCLOHEXADIENE 0 Root Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
PHTHALIDES 0 Root 700.0 12600.0 *
PRETAZETTINE 5 Stem *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 200000.0 1.21 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PSORALEN 31 Fruit 3.0 -0.46 Abstract (See species file)
PSORALEN 31 Root List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
RESIN 0 Root List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
SEDANENOLIDE 1 Root Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
SEDANOIC-ACID 0 Root Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
SEDANOIC-ANHYDRIDE 0 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
SENKYUNOLIDE 0 Root 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.
STARCH 5 Root List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
SUGAR 0 Root List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Root Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
THUJOPSENE 2 Root 8.0 80.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRANS-2-NONENAL 0 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
TRANS-ALPHA-BERGAMOTENE 0 Root 12.0 125.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRANS-ANETHOLE 8 Root Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRANS-LIGUSTILIDE 0 Root 240.0 2040.0 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Vasodilator 2 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Vermicide 1 *
Vermifuge 2 *
Verrucolytic 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Vibriocide 2 *
Vulnerary 4 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor 2 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.