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
N-NONANAL	5	Seed	6.0	12.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
N-OCTANAL	2	Fruit	24.0	48.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTANAL	2	Seed	24.0	48.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NEODIHYDROCARVEOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEODIHYDROCARVEOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NEOISODIHYDROCARVEOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOISODIHYDROCARVEOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NIACIN	39	Fruit	21.0	56.0	-0.06	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	21.0	56.0	0.39	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NICKEL	3	Fruit	not available	7.0	1.35	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Seed	7.0	10.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Fruit	54400.0	95648.0	0.26	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	29000.0	241000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
P-1(7),8-MENTHADIENE-6-OL	0	Seed	10.0	25.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Seed	not available	86.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Seed	0.1	1320.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
P-MENTHA-2,8-DIEN-1-OL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	2000.0	6658.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	2000.0	9000.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Fruit	900.0	999.0	-0.16	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.