“…Celery seed contains a variety of constituents. As a member of the class of bioactive natural products, phthalides occurs widely in umbelliferous plants (Bjeldanes and Kim, 1977;Chulia et al, 1986;Kaouadji et al, 1984;Kaouadji et al, 1986, Banerjee et al, 1982. Earlier studies of A. graveolens led to the isolation of limonene, p-mentha-2,8-dien-1-ol, p-mentha-8(9)-en-1,2diol, 3-n-butylphthalide, sedanolide (Zheng et al, 1994), selinene (Semmler and Risse, 1912), selinenol (Ruzicka and Stoll, 1923) and seselin, isoimperatorin, osthenol, bergapten, isopimpinellin, apigravin, and apiumoside (Grag et al, 1978(Grag et al, , 1979a.…”