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Plant Pastinaca sativa (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Parsnip
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
SFA 0 Root 500.0 2445.0 -0.19 Duke, 1992 *
SILICON 4 Root 2.0 50.0 -0.11 Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM 1 Root 100.0 575.0 -0.25 Duke, 1992 *
SPHONDIN 1 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Root 140.0 685.0 0.76 Duke, 1992 *
SUBERIN 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR 14 Root 270.0 11050.0 2.46 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Root Essent. Oil 253000.0 666000.0 1.41 Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Root 0.8 11.4 0.42 Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-BETA-OCIMENE 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIPETROSELINENE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIFERONE 22 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6 0 Root 0.9 4.4 -1.53 Duke, 1992 *
WATER 0 Root 724000.0 810000.0 0.27 Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOTOXIN 43 Leaf not available 800.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOTOXIN 43 Root 26.0 1000.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOTOXOL 5 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ZINC 77 Root 5.0 70.0 2.01 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hepatoprotective 9 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 210.
Hepatotoxic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide 4 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.
Histaminic 1 Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 2 Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hypercholesterolemic 2 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypertensive 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hypertrichotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypnotic 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Hypocholesterolemic 12 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive 14 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Hypothermic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator 8 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 5 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Immunosuppressant 1 Martindale's 29th