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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
LINALOL 0 Leaf 0.1 -0.44 *
LINALOOL 53 Leaf 0.1 -0.65 *
LITHIUM 11 Plant 0.8 0.8 -1.00 *
LUTEIN 15 Plant Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
LUTEIN 15 Shoot *
LUTEOLIN-7-APIOSYL-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit *
LUTEOLIN-7-APIOSYL-GLUCOSIDE 0 Seed *
LUTEOLIN-7-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Plant Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
LUTEOLIN-7-O-BETA-D-APIOGLUCOSIDE 0 Plant *
LYSINE 4 Plant 2190.0 18724.0 1.07 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
M-XYLENE 0 Leaf *
MAGNESIUM 65 Plant 250.0 3160.0 -0.28 *
MALIC-ACID 15 Root *
MANGANESE 14 Plant 0.5 6.0 -0.65 *
MERCURY 1 Plant 0.0 0.4 -0.48 *
METHANOL 2 Leaf *
METHIONINE 15 Plant 150.0 1282.0 -0.36 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
METHYL-DISULFIDE 0 Leaf *
METHYL-DISULFIDE 0 Plant Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
MOLYBDENUM 2 Plant 0.1 14.0 1.72 *
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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.