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
Comedolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Contraceptive	1	Martindale's 28th
Convulsant	2	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Copper-Antagonist	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Copper-Chelator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant	2	Martindale's 29th
COX-1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Culicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Activator	1	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.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cytotoxic (Breast)	1	Saqib, Q. N., Hui, Y. H., Anderson, J. E. and McLaughlin, J. L. 1990. Bioactive Furanocoumarins from the Berries of Zanthoxylum americanum. Phytotherapy Research 4(6): 216-219.
Cytotoxic (Colon)	1	Saqib, Q. N., Hui, Y. H., Anderson, J. E. and McLaughlin, J. L. 1990. Bioactive Furanocoumarins from the Berries of Zanthoxylum americanum. Phytotherapy Research 4(6): 216-219.
Cytotoxic (Lung)	1	Saqib, Q. N., Hui, Y. H., Anderson, J. E. and McLaughlin, J. L. 1990. Bioactive Furanocoumarins from the Berries of Zanthoxylum americanum. Phytotherapy Research 4(6): 216-219.