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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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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
MAGNESIUM 65 Fruit 2449.0 2893.0 0.35 *
MAGNESIUM 65 Plant 560.0 6470.0 0.75 *
MAGNESIUM 65 Seed 2449.0 2893.0 -0.02 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MANGANESE 14 Fruit 18.0 -0.28 *
MANGANESE 14 Plant 8.0 435.0 2.42 *
MANGANESE 14 Seed 18.0 -0.44 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MERCURY 1 Plant 0.0 0.1 -0.50 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
METHIONINE 15 Fruit 1430.0 1549.0 0.73 *
METHIONINE 15 Seed 1430.0 1549.0 -0.71 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
METHYL-BENZOATE 4 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
METHYL-CHAVICOL 6 Fruit *
METHYL-CHAVICOL 6 Seed Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
MOLYBDENUM 2 Plant 0.1 -0.77 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
MYRCENE 22 Essential Oil *
MYRCENE 22 Fruit 84.0 924.0 -0.24 *
MYRCENE 22 Leaf 15.0 115.0 -0.13 *
MYRCENE 22 Seed 20.0 924.0 -0.55 *
MYRCENE 22 Shoot Essent. Oil 15600.0 -0.44 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Fruit 100.0 108.0 -0.26 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Seed 100.0 108.0 -0.29 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Coleoptophile 1 *
Collagen-Sparing 2 *
Collagenic 2 *
Comedogenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Comedolytic 1 *
COMT-Inhibitor 1 *
Contraceptive 1 Martindale's 28th
Controlled 1 HerbalGram No. 20, page 15.
Convulsant 1 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Copper-Antagonist 1 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
Copper-Chelator 2 *
Cosmetic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant 3 Martindale's 28th
COX-1-Inhibitor 4 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 7 *
Culicide 2 *
Cyclooxygenase-Activator 2 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 6 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A1-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *