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Common Names
Caraway; Carum; Kummel (Ger.); Comino (Sp.); Comino de prado (Sp.)
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE | 11 | Seed | 3.0 | 1230.0 | -0.53 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Fruit | 42.0 | 540.0 | -0.58 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Plant | not available | 20.0 | -0.47 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Seed | 4.0 | 540.0 | -0.45 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-TERPINENE | 13 | Seed | 6.0 | 12.0 | -0.51 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| ALPHA-TERPINEOL | 23 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-THUJENE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| ARABINOSE | 0 | 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. |
| ARGININE | 14 | Seed | 12520.0 | 13900.0 | -0.45 | Revised USDA data received 1993. |
| ASH | 0 | Fruit | 56460.0 | 67620.0 | 0.28 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASH | 0 | Seed | 55000.0 | 67620.0 | 0.59 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASPARTIC-ACID | 3 | Seed | 20840.0 | 23130.0 | 0.05 | Revised USDA data received 1993. |
| ASTRAGALIN | 7 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BENZOIC-ACID-4-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE | 0 | Seed | not available | 37.0 | -1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-CAROTENE | 53 | Fruit | not available | 2.0 | -0.15 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-CAROTENE | 53 | Seed | not available | 2.0 | -0.30 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE | 0 | Seed | 20.0 | 1320.0 | 0.92 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-ELEMENE | 5 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-ELEMENE | 5 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-FENCHENE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Hypertensive | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Hypertrichotic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Hypnotic | 3 | Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp. |
| Hypoammonemic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Hypoarginanemic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Hypocholesterolemic | 14 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Hypocholesterolemic? | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Hypoglycemic | 8 | Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989. |
| Hypolipidemic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypotensive | 15 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypothermic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypouricemic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ICAM-1-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Immunomodulator | 6 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Immunostimulant | 6 | Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp. |
| Immunosuppressant | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Inflammatory | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| iNOS-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Inotropic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Insecticide | 9 | Duke, 1992 * |