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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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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiulcer 1 Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
Antiviral 2 *
Apoptotic 2 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Bronchoprotectant 1 *
Calcium-Antagonist 4 *
Cancer-Preventive 4 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 4 Planta Medica, 57: A43, 1991.
Candidistat 1 *
Carcinogenic 1 *
Chemopreventive 3 *
Cholesterolytic 1 *
Coleoptophile 1 *
Detoxicant 1 *
Differentiator 1 *
DNA-Binder 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Enterocontractant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Expectorant 3 *
FLavor 11 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 4 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.