Bishop’s weed

The following plants contained substantial proportions of apiose, about the same as found in parsley Aegopodium pologaria (bishop s weed), Apium graveolens L. (celery), Conopodium majus (earthnut), Datus aucaparia (rowan), Desfontania spinosa, Ilex aquifolium (holly), Lavatera annual, Lemna wolffia (duckweed), Menyanthes trifoliata (bob bean), and Vinca minor (periwinkle). 

Ajowan, or bishop s weed (Trachyspermum ammi), is an important seed spice particularly suitable to delicate vegetarian cuisine. It has a strong and distinctive thyme-like... 

IgE-mediated rhinitis and contact urticaria were caused by exposure to bishop s weed in a 31-year-old atopic female florist (7). A skin prick test with bishop s weed flowers gave an 8 mm wheal, and the bishop s weed-specific serum IgE concentration was 9.7 PRU/ml (RAST class 3). 

Kiistala R, Makinen-Kiljunen S, Heikkinen K, Rinne J, Haahtela T. Occupational allergic rhinitis and contact urticaria caused by bishop s weed Ammi majus). Allergy 1999 54(6) 635-9. 

Sassafras albidum (sassafras) Lauraceae (iaurei) Bishop s weed Ammi majus... 

The discovery that a Middle Eastern herb, Ammi visnaga (Khella, Bishop s weed), had mild bronchodilation effects led to the isolation of a benzopyrene (a chromone), khellin. Khellin had only weak bronchodilator effects, so synthetic analogues were prepared in an attempt to enhance the bronchodilation. All analogues... 

Amni maius Bishop s weed Agave lechi illa Agave... 

Aegopodium podagraria L. Bishop s weed, ground elder L, St V 1,2,9 Bohimann etal. 1973 Kemp 1978 Degen et al. 1999... 

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