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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Anethum graveolens (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Dill; Garden Dill
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Leaf 120.0 2100.0 4.55 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Root *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Root Essent. Oil *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Seed 25.0 1925.0 -0.07 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Seed Essent. Oil *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Shoot Essent. Oil 82100.0 169300.0 1.00 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Essential Oil *
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf 1.0 40.0 -0.37 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil 13600.0 -0.37 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Plant *
BETA-PINENE 13 Shoot Essent. Oil *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant 490.0 -0.11 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Root *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed Essent. Oil *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
BETA-SITOSTEROL-GLYCOSIDE 0 Fruit *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-GLYCOSIDE 0 Seed =ICMR(Indian Council of Medical Research).1976.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.1.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambridge Printing Works, New Delhi.487 pp;ICMR.1987.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.2.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambr. Printing Works,New Delhi.600pp
BETA-TERPINEOL 3 Fruit *
BETA-TERPINEOL 3 Plant Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
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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 *