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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Ferula assa-foetida (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Asafetida, Asafoetida, Assa-foetida, Devil's Dung, Stinkasant (Ger.), Asafetida (Sp.), test
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ASH 0 Plant 15000.0 100000.0 -0.38 *
ASSAFOETIDIN 0 Gum *
AZULENE 10 Root *
BADRAKEMIN 0 Gum 1750.0 *
BADRAKEMIN-ACETATE 0 Gum 1500.0 *
BASSORIN 0 Gum List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BETA-PINENE 13 Essential Oil *
BORNEOL-ACETATE 0 Seed Essent. Oil 93300.0 1.00 *
BUTYLPROPENYL-DISULFIDE 0 Essential Oil 400000.0 450000.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
BYAKANGELICOL 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CADINENE 4 Essential Oil 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.
COLADONIN 0 Gum 1250.0 *
CONFEROL 0 Root 10.0 *
CYNAROSIDE 3 Fruit *
DI-2-BUTYL-METHYL-TRISULFIDE 0 Essential Oil *
DI-2-BUTYLDISULFIDE 0 Essential Oil *
DI-2-BUTYLTETRASULFIDE 0 Essential Oil *
DI-2-BUTYLTRISULFIDE 0 Essential Oil *
DIALLYL-DISULFIDE 26 Essential Oil *
DIALLYL-SULFATE 0 Essential Oil *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 2 (View) *
ACE-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Acetylcholinergic 1 (View) *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 4 (View) Shin*, K.H., Chung, M.S., Chae, Y.J., Yoon, K.Y., Cho, T.S. 1992. A survey for aldose reductase inhibition of herbal medicines. Fitoterapia 64(2): 130, 1993.
Allelochemic 3 (View) *
Allelopathic 2 (View) Holappa, L.D., and Blum*, U. 1991. Effects of Exogenously Applied Ferulic Acid, a Potential Allelopathic Compound, on Leaf Growth, Water Utilization, and Endogenous Abscisic Acid Levels of Tomato, Cucumber, and Bean. J. of Chemical Ecology, 17(5): 865.
Allergenic 5 (View) *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Analgesic 1 (View) Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 69.
Anemiagenic 1 (View) *
Antiacne 3 (View) *
Antiaggregant 1 (View) Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Antiallergic 3 (View) Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Antialopecic 2 (View) *
Antianaphylactic 1 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic 2 (View) *
Antianemic 1 (View) *
Antiangiogenic 1 (View) *
Antiappetant 1 (View) *
Antiarrhythmic 1 (View) *