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
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
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.