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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Anethum graveolens (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Dill; Garden Dill
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
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Seed 125.0 7469.0 1.53 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Seed Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Shoot Essent. Oil 248800.0 525100.0 1.41 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit 24.0 1001.0 -0.46 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf 25.0 405.0 -0.20 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Seed 12.0 1001.0 -0.39 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Seed Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Shoot Essent. Oil 17500.0 31700.0 1.98 *
ALPHA-PYRONENE 0 Leaf 2.0 6.0 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf 0.1 2100.0 0.77 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Seed Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Shoot Essent. Oil 3400.0 -0.72 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Essential Oil 83800.0 2.94 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Leaf 0.1 20.0 -0.56 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Plant *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Fruit 36.0 231.0 -0.38 *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Leaf 10.0 25.0 -0.37 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadrenalinic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiadrenergic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiaflatoxin 8 *
AntiAGE 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 21 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Antiaging 6 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 4 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antialkalotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiallergic 11 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialopecic 5 Martindale's 28th
Antialzheimeran 7 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antialzheimeran? 5 L. Gracza (1985) as cited by Buchbauer re antiacetylcholinesterase.
Antiamblyopic 1 *
Antianaphylactic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic 4 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic 3 Martindale's 29th
Antianginal 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiangiogenic 5 *