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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ANGEOLIDE 0 Root Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
APIOLE 20 Seed Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
APTERIN 0 Root *
AR-CURCUMENE 3 Root 1.0 13.0 1.00 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BENZENE 3 Root Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BENZOIC-ACID 20 Root Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
BENZYL-ALCOHOL 9 Root 3.0 30.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BERGAPTEN 26 Root *
BETA-CHAMIGRENE 0 Root 1.0 13.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Root 12.0 125.0 1.00 Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Root 24.0 240.0 -1.00 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Root 21.0 210.0 -0.45 *
BETA-SELINENE 3 Root 10.0 100.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Root List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BETA-SITOSTEROL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 4 Root Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
BORNEOL 35 Root Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BUTYL-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Root *
BUTYL-HEXAHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Root Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BUTYL-PHTHALIDE 10 Root 153.0 1535.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BUTYLIDENE-PHTHALIDE 10 Root 153.0 1535.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antitumor (Breast) 2 *
Antitumor (Cervix) 2 *
Antitumor (Colon) 2 *
Antitumor (Forestomach) 1 *
Antitumor (GI) 1 *
Antitumor (Kidney) 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitumor (Liver) 1 *
Antitumor (Lung) 1 *
Antitumor (Pancreas) 2 *
Antitumor (Prostate) 2 *
Antitumor (Skin) 2 *
Antitumor (Stomach) 1 *
Antitumor-Promoter 4 Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive 3 *
Antiulcer 4 Yamahara, J., et al. Stomachic principles in ginger. II. Pungent and anti-ulcer effects of low polar constituents isolated from ginger, the dried rhizoma of... Yakugaku Zasshi 112: 645-655 (1992).
Antiulcerogenic 1 *
Antiuterocontractant 1 *
Antivaccinia 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic 2 *
Antiviral 12 *