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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-TERPINEOL 3 Seed Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BORON 4 Plant 4.0 35.0 -0.46 *
BORON 4 Seed 28.0 50.0 1.23 Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
BROMINE 0 Plant 1.0 6.0 -0.81 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
BUTYL-PHTHALIDE 10 Root Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
CADMIUM 3 Plant 0.0 1.0 -0.33 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Fruit *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Leaf 1140.0 -0.56 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Seed *
CALAMENENE 0 Leaf 1.0 3.0 -0.58 *
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 14003.0 17671.0 3.19 *
CALCIUM 28 Plant 1900.0 21453.0 0.84 *
CALCIUM 28 Seed 14003.0 17671.0 2.48 *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Plant 490.0 1.95 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPHENE 9 Plant Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
CAMPHOR 41 Root *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 551700.0 597491.0 -0.99 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Plant 558200.0 602000.0 -0.45 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 551700.0 597491.0 0.29 *
CAROTENE 0 Seed *
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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 *