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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Agastache foeniculum (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Giant Hyssop
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
DIOSMETIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Inflorescence Jim Duke's personal files.
DIOSMETIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
EO 0 Plant 1000.0 12500.0 0.21 *
ESTRAGOLE 12 Essential Oil 820000.0 930000.0 0.88 Jim Duke's personal files.
ESTRAGOLE 12 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ETHYLDIMETHYLHEPTENE 0 Plant 1.0 75.0 Mazza, G. and Kiehn, F.A. 1992. Essential Oil of Agastache foeniculum, A Potential Source of Methyl Chavicol. J. Ess. Oil Res., 4: 295-299.
GERMACRENE-D 2 Plant 25.0 2525.0 1.71 *
LIMONENE 60 Plant 2.0 25.0 -0.47 *
LINALOL 0 Plant 15.0 -0.43 Mazza, G. and Kiehn, F.A. 1992. Essential Oil of Agastache foeniculum, A Potential Source of Methyl Chavicol. J. Ess. Oil Res., 4: 295-299.
METHYL-CHAVICOL 6 Plant 555.0 12160.0 1.55 *
MYRCENE 22 Plant 30.0 -0.44 Mazza, G. and Kiehn, F.A. 1992. Essential Oil of Agastache foeniculum, A Potential Source of Methyl Chavicol. J. Ess. Oil Res., 4: 295-299.
PARA-METHOXY CINNAMALDEHYDE 0 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
TILIANIN 0 Inflorescence Jim Duke's personal files.
TILIANIN 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
TRANS-ANETHOLE 8 Plant 20.0 -0.46 Mazza, G. and Kiehn, F.A. 1992. Essential Oil of Agastache foeniculum, A Potential Source of Methyl Chavicol. J. Ess. Oil Res., 4: 295-299.
TRANS-OCIMENE 0 Plant 15.0 1150.0 2.91 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Acaricide 1 *
ACE-Inhibitor 1 *
AChE-Inhibitor 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 5 *
Allelochemic 2 *
Allelopathic 1 Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands.
Allergenic 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Analgesic 3 Kauderer, B., Zamith, H., Paumgartten, F.J.R., and Speit, G. Evaluation of the Mutagenicity of B-Myrcene in Mammalian Cells In Vitro. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis 18: 28-34, 1991.
Anesthetic 2 *
Antiacetylcholinesterase 2 *
Antiacne 2 *
Antiadenomic 1 *
Antiaflatoxin 1 *
Antiaggregant 1 Laekeman, G.M., Van Hoof, L., Haemers, A., Vanden Berghe, D.A., Herman, A.G., and Vlietinck, A.J. Eugenol a Valuable Compound for In Vitro Experimental Research and Worthwhile for Further In Vivo Investigation. Phytotherapy Research 4(3): 93, 1990.
Antiallergic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialzheimeran? 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiasthmatic 2 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Antibacterial 7 Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Anticancer 2 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 *