Plant Carum carvi (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Caraway; Carum; Kummel (Ger.); Comino (Sp.); Comino de prado (Sp.)

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
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	300000.0	554000.0	0.12	Duke, 1992 *
CARVACROL	37	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARVACROL	37	Seed	not available	not available	not available	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.
CARVACROL	37	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	595300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARVEOL	1	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARVEOL	1	Plant	not available	430.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARVEOL	1	Seed	120.0	3240.0	1.00	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARVONE	19	Essential Oil	264000.0	580000.0	1.46	Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE	19	Fruit	9000.0	44310.0	2.00	Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE	19	Plant	not available	3120.0	0.12	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARVONE	19	Seed	10880.0	32640.0	0.58	Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE	19	Seed Essent. Oil	595300.0	900000.0	1.39	Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE-EPOXIDE(8,9)	0	Seed	25.0	80.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARVYL-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	55.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARVYL-ACETATE	0	Seed	45.0	455.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Fruit	not available	15.5	1.67	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Seed	not available	15.5	1.58	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-2-CARVEOL	0	Seed	75.0	230.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-BETA-OCIMENE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-CARVEOL	0	Flower Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	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
Antileukotriene-D4	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotrienogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilupus	1	Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphocytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	1	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimange	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimanic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastalgic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimelanogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic	4	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMeniere's	1	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.