Plant Carum carvi (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Caraway; Carum; Kummel (Ger.); Comino (Sp.); Comino de prado (Sp.)

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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
(+)-CARVONE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CARVONE	2	Seed	9000.0	55760.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CARVONE	2	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CIS-CARVEOL	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-DIHYDROCARVEOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-LIMONENE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-TRANS-CARVEOL	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-CARVONE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-CIS-CARVEOL	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-DIHYDROCARVONE	0	Essential Oil	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-LIMONENE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-TRANS-CARVEOL	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(E)-BETA-OCIMENE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(E)-DIHYDROCARVONE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(E)-P-MENTHA-2,8-DIEN-1-OL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(Z)-BETA-OCIMENE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(Z)-DIHYDROCARVONE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(Z)-P-MENTHA-2,8-DIEN-1-OL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1,8-CINEOLE	67	Seed	not available	0.1	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
1-P-MENTHENE-6-AN-OL	0	Seed	50.0	155.0	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
Antiflu	6	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigastric	1	Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigliomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglossitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglutamaergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihalitosic	1	American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihangover	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihelicobacter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	1	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.