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

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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
N-NONANAL	5	Seed	6.0	12.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
N-OCTANAL	2	Fruit	24.0	48.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTANAL	2	Seed	24.0	48.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NEODIHYDROCARVEOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEODIHYDROCARVEOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NEOISODIHYDROCARVEOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOISODIHYDROCARVEOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NIACIN	39	Fruit	21.0	56.0	-0.06	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	21.0	56.0	0.39	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NICKEL	3	Fruit	not available	7.0	1.35	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Seed	7.0	10.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Fruit	54400.0	95648.0	0.26	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	29000.0	241000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
P-1(7),8-MENTHADIENE-6-OL	0	Seed	10.0	25.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Seed	not available	86.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Seed	0.1	1320.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
P-MENTHA-2,8-DIEN-1-OL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	2000.0	6658.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	2000.0	9000.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Fruit	900.0	999.0	-0.16	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
Carminative	3	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catabolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cerebrodepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	7	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	3	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Cholesterolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cicatrizant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Circulotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Clastogenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Active	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
CNS-Depressant	3	Facciola, S. 1998. Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications, Vista CA. 713 pp.
CNS-Stimulant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Co-carcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Coleoptophile	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collagen-Sparing	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Colorant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.