Plant Pastinaca sativa (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Parsnip

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
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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Mutagenic	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Myoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	5	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Natriuretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	4	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
NEP-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nephrotoxic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Neuroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	1	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Neurotransmitter	1	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Oviposition-Stimulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Oxytocic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Ozone-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *