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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
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic 1 *
Hemostat 3 *
Hepatocarcinogenic 2 *
Hepatomagenic 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 11 *
Hepatotonic 1 Fitoterapia No.5-1986.
Hepatotoxic 6 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Hepatotropic 1 *
Herbicide 7 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Herbistat 1 *
HIF-1alpha-Inhibitor 1 *
Histamine-Inhibitor 2 *
Histaminic 1 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 2 Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Hypercholesterolemic 2 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Hypertensive 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hypertrichotic 1 Martindale's 29th