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
Antileukemic	2	Life Sciences 55: 1061.
Antileukodermic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antileukonychic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukoplakic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antileukotriene-D4	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilupus	1	Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphocytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	2	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimastalgic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanomic	2	Duke, 1992 *