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

Common Names

Dill; Garden Dill

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
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	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE	11	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE	11	Shoot Essent. Oil	248800.0	525100.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Fruit	24.0	1001.0	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Leaf	25.0	405.0	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Seed	12.0	1001.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Shoot Essent. Oil	17500.0	31700.0	1.98	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PYRONENE	0	Leaf	2.0	6.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Leaf	0.1	2100.0	0.77	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	3400.0	-0.72	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Essential Oil	not available	83800.0	2.94	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Leaf	0.1	20.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJENE	0	Fruit	36.0	231.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJENE	0	Leaf	10.0	25.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Coleoptophile	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collagen-Sparing	2	Duke, 1992 *
Collagenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Comedogenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Comedolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	7	Duke, 1992 *
Culicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *