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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
SELENIUM 60 Plant 0.0 0.0 -0.43 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
SENKYUNOLIDE 0 Root *
SILICON 4 Plant 30.0 700.0 3.67 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
SODIUM 1 Fruit 158.0 262.0 -0.16 *
SODIUM 1 Plant 1097.0 3308.0 -0.12 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SODIUM 1 Seed 158.0 262.0 -0.30 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit 1000.0 1083.0 -0.21 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 1000.0 1083.0 -0.54 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STIGMASTEROL 12 Plant 420.0 1.16 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
STIGMASTEROL 12 Root *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Seed Essent. Oil *
SULFUR 14 Plant 1400.0 11175.0 3.11 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
TANNINS 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Essential Oil *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Fruit 12.0 77.0 -0.35 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Leaf 5.0 15.0 -0.33 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Seed 0.1 77.0 -0.65 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Leaf 0.1 50.0 -0.17 *
TETRADECANE 0 Root Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
TETRAHYDROCOUMARANE 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
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Antibronchitic 1 Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Antibronchoconstrictor 1 *
Anticancer 8 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Colon) 2 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 *
Anticancer (Liver) 2 *
Anticancer (Lung) 2 *
Anticancer (Pancreas) 1 *
Anticancer (Skin) 2 *
Anticanker 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility 4 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic 1 *
Anticariogenic 6 Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 11 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.