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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
1-METHYL-4-ISOPROPENYL-BENZENE 0 Fruit *
1-METHYL-4-ISOPROPENYL-BENZENE 0 Seed Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
2-DIHYDROCARVEOL 0 Leaf 10.0 30.0 *
2-DIHYDROCARVEOL 0 Seed 155.0 1000.0 *
2-NONANOL 0 Plant Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
3',4'-DIMETHOXYQUERCETIN 0 Leaf *
3,6-DIMETHYL-2,3,3A,4,5,7A-HEXAHYDROBENZOFURAN 0 Leaf 240.0 750.0 *
3,6-DIMETHYL-2,3,4,5,8,9-HEXAHYDROBENZOFURAN 0 Plant *
3,6-DIMETHYL-3-ALPHA-4,5,7-ALPHA-TETRAHYDROCOUMARAN 0 Essential Oil *
3,6-DIMETHYL-3-ALPHA-4,5,7-ALPHA-TETRAHYDROCOUMARAN 0 Seed *
3,6-DIMETHYL-3A,4,5,7A-TETRAHYDROCOUMARAN 0 Fruit *
3,6-DIMETHYLCOUMARAN 0 Essential Oil *
3,6-DIMETHYLCOUMARAN 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
3,7-DIMETHYL-4,5,6,9-TETRAHYDROCOUMARAN 0 Fruit *
3,7-DIMETHYL-4,5,6,9-TETRAHYDROCOUMARAN 0 Seed Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
4'-METHOXY-KAEMPFEROL 0 Leaf *
4-ALPHA-DIMETHYLSTYRENE 0 Root *
4-METHYL-AESCULETIN 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
5-METHOXY-PSORALEN 10 Seed *
6,7-DIHYDRO-8,8,DIMETHYL-2H,8H-BENZO-(1,2B:5,4')-DIPYRAN-2,6-DIONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Epinephrininergic 1 Sabinsa: A series of well documented proprietary PR booklets,
e.g.Sabinsa Corps. 1998. Bronchial Asthma - Its etiology and control with traditional herbal extracts. Sabinsa Corporation. Piscataway, NJ. 49 pp.
Ergogenic 1 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 8 Australian J. Med Herbalism, 7: 29.
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 11 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor 31 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 33 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 4 *
GABA-nergic 1 *
Gastroirritant 1 Martindale's 29th
Gastrostimulant 1 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 *
Glutathionigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.