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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Petroselinum crispum (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Parsley
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
GAMMA-ELEMENE 0 Leaf *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Fruit Essent. Oil 16000.0 36300.0 1.36 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Leaf 0.4 -0.37 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Seed 3.0 1120.0 -0.63 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Seed Essent. Oil 5000.0 -1.06 *
GERANIOL 35 Leaf 1.3 -0.23 *
GERMACRENE-D 2 Leaf 6.9 -0.52 *
GLYCOLIC-ACID 4 Root *
GLYCOLIC-ACID 4 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GRAVEOLONE 0 Leaf *
GRAVEOLONE 0 Tissue Culture *
HERACLENOL 0 Seed 3.7 *
HEX-3-EN-1-YL-ACETATE 0 Leaf *
HEX-3-EN-1-YL-ACETATE 0 Plant Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL 0 Leaf *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-YL-ACETATE 0 Plant *
HEXADECENOIC-ACID 0 Leaf 0.2 *
HEXAN-1-AL 0 Leaf *
IMPERATORIN 25 Fruit 1.0 6.0 -0.67 *
IMPERATORIN 25 Leaf 0.5 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiseborrheic 3 *
Antiseptic 27 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiserotonic 1 Internat. J. Oriental Med. 15(4): 199, 1990+
Antiserotonin 1 *
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antishock 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antisindhis 1 *
Antispare-Tire 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antispasmodic 32 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiSpina-Bifida 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistaphylococcic 8 *
Antistomatitic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic 3 *
Antistress 8 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke 3 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antisunburn 3 *
Antisyndrome-X 6 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antithiamin 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.