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
BETA-MYRCENE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
BETA-PINENE	13	Fruit	270.0	600.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Plant	not available	20.0	-0.41	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-PINENE	13	Seed	40.0	600.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed	not available	420.0	-0.47	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CADINENE	4	Plant	3720.0	29760.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Seed	not available	2840.0	1.94	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	6426.0	8160.0	0.99	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Seed	1530.0	8160.0	0.74	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM-OXALATE	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM-OXALATE	4	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
CAMPESTEROL	2	Seed	not available	30.0	-0.56	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPHENE	9	Fruit	1.0	900.0	0.02	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Plant	not available	30.0	-0.55	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CAMPHENE	9	Seed	1.0	900.0	1.52	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CAPRIC-ACID	3	Fruit	100.0	110.0	-0.68	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRIC-ACID	3	Seed	100.0	110.0	-0.52	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	499000.0	554000.0	-1.22	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.