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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Carum carvi (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Caraway; Carum; Kummel (Ger.); Comino (Sp.); Comino de prado (Sp.)
How this plant is used
Food

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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 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit 42.0 540.0 -0.58 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Plant 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 *
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 *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Seed Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ARABINOSE 0 Seed 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 *
ASH 0 Seed 55000.0 67620.0 0.59 *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Seed 20840.0 23130.0 0.05 Revised USDA data received 1993.
ASTRAGALIN 7 Seed *
BENZOIC-ACID-4-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Seed 37.0 -1.00 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit 2.0 -0.15 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Seed 2.0 -0.30 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Seed 20.0 1320.0 0.92 *
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Essential Oil *
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Seed Essent. Oil *
BETA-FENCHENE 0 Seed *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Tumor-Promoter 2 *
Tumorigenic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 5 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 2 *
Uricosuric 2 *
Urine-Acidifier 1 Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative 1 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.
Uterotonic 1 Tyler, V.E.. 1982. The Honest Herbal. George F. Stickley Co., Philadelphia PA. 263 pp.
Uterotrophic 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Vasodilator 9 *
VEGF-Inhibitor 1 *
Vermicide 1 *
Vermifuge 1 *
Vibriocide 1 Blaschek, W., Hansel, R., Keller, K., Reichling, J., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1998. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Auflage Band 2 (A-K), 909 pp., (L-Z), 858 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Vulnerary 4 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor 5 Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 1772.