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
BORON	4	Root	4.0	25.0	0.04	Duke, 1992 *
BROMINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM	3	Root	0.0	0.4	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Root	315.0	3525.0	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Root	17500.0	902000.0	0.92	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Root	0.0	0.1	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-ALLO-OCIMENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-BETA-OCIMENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Root	0.8	12.0	0.03	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Root	3000.0	24000.0	0.04	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	173000.0	288000.0	0.12	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Root	15000.0	97700.0	0.21	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE	0	Root	not available	0.1	-0.81	Duke, 1992 *
FOLACIN	15	Root	0.6	3.6	0.11	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IMPERATORIN	25	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IMPERATORIN	25	Root	not available	1700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IMPERATORIN	25	Seed	not available	not available	not available	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
P450-2B1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	2	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	1	Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
Parasiticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Percutaneostimulant	2	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	13	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Peristaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	30	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Photoactive	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Photocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Photodermatitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Photosensitizer	1	Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Phototoxic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin	3	Merck 11th Edition
Piscicide	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.