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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
BERGAPTEN 26 Shoot 5.0 2000.0 1.00 *
BERGAPTEN 26 Tissue Culture *
BETA-BISABOLENE 6 Leaf 2.8 -0.43 *
BETA-BISABOLENE 6 Seed 22.0 -0.81 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Plant 12.0 154.0 0.11 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Shoot *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 11000.0 62100.0 -0.18 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Leaf 2.5 -0.33 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Seed 6.6 770.0 -0.25 *
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Leaf 5.4 -0.39 *
BETA-FARNESENE 0 Leaf 3.9 -1.52 *
BETA-FARNESENE 0 Seed 25.0 -1.00 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Fruit Essent. Oil 35100.0 -0.62 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Leaf 60.0 530.0 0.80 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Seed 43.0 4970.0 1.64 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Seed Essent. Oil 71000.0 1.87 *
BETA-PHENYLETHANOL 5 Fruit Essent. Oil *
BETA-PHENYLETHANOL 5 Seed *
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit Essent. Oil 2000.0 203900.0 1.79 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf 2.4 -0.43 *
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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