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
(+)-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
Antihepatitic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	8	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antihomocystinuric	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihydrophobic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperkeratotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypoglycemic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiichythyotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).