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

Food

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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
Monoamine-Precursor	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mosquitofuge	2	Duke, 1992 *
Motor-Depressant	3	Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Mucogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Musculotropic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Mutagenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	5	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Natriuretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	14	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
NEP-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroexcitant	1	Martindale's 28th
Neuroinhibitor	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neuroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Neurotransmitter	1	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	2	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *