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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
CAR-3-ENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Plant 69100.0 590805.0 -0.53 *
CAROTENE 0 Fruit *
CAROTOL 0 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CARVEOL 1 Leaf 3.9 -1.00 *
CHALCONE-FLAVONOID-ISOMERASE 0 Tissue Culture *
CHALCONE-SYNTHASE 0 Tissue Culture *
CHLORINE 7 Shoot *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Stem *
CHROMIUM 24 Plant 0.1 0.6 -0.81 *
CHRYSOERIOL-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Seed *
CHRYSOERIOL-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCURONIDE 0 Leaf *
CIS-3-HEXEN-1-OL 0 Leaf 18.6 -0.67 *
CIS-3-HEXEN-1-OL 0 Plant Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CIS-BETA-OCIMENE 0 Leaf *
CIS-BETA-OCIMENE 0 Plant *
CIS-LIGUSTILIDE 0 Root *
CITRIC-ACID 23 Root *
COBALT 2 Plant 0.4 4.7 -0.32 *
COPPER 12 Plant 1.0 12.0 -0.22 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cytotoxic 11 Planta Medica, 57: A113, 1991.
Cytotoxic (Breast) 3 Saqib, Q. N., Hui, Y. H., Anderson, J. E. and McLaughlin, J. L. 1990. Bioactive Furanocoumarins from the Berries of Zanthoxylum americanum. Phytotherapy Research 4(6): 216-219.
Cytotoxic (Colon) 3 Saqib, Q. N., Hui, Y. H., Anderson, J. E. and McLaughlin, J. L. 1990. Bioactive Furanocoumarins from the Berries of Zanthoxylum americanum. Phytotherapy Research 4(6): 216-219.
Cytotoxic (Lung) 2 Saqib, Q. N., Hui, Y. H., Anderson, J. E. and McLaughlin, J. L. 1990. Bioactive Furanocoumarins from the Berries of Zanthoxylum americanum. Phytotherapy Research 4(6): 216-219.
Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Deliriant 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Demulcent 1 *
Dentifrice 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Deodorant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Depressant 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Dermal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic 4 *
Detoxicant 2 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diaphoretic? 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 2 *
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 14 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DME-Inhibitor 4 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 134.