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Common Names
Fennel
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DIANETHOLE | 1 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DIANETHOLE | 1 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DILLAPIOL | 6 | Root Essent. Oil | 873000.0 | 900000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DILLAPIOL | 6 | Sprout Seedling | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| DIPENTENE | 7 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DIPENTENE | 7 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EO | 0 | Fruit | 10000.0 | 80000.0 | 0.73 | Duke, 1992 * |
| EO | 0 | Plant | not available | 10000.0 | 0.02 | Duke, 1992 * |
| EO | 0 | Root | 5000.0 | 7000.0 | -0.33 | Duke, 1992 * |
| EO | 0 | Seed | 2160.0 | 60000.0 | 0.21 | Duke, 1992 * |
| EO | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ESTRAGOLE | 12 | Essential Oil | 27000.0 | 56000.0 | -1.62 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ESTRAGOLE | 12 | Fruit | not available | 64000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ESTRAGOLE | 12 | Seed | not available | 64000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ESTRAGOLE | 12 | Seed Essent. Oil | 30000.0 | 344000.0 | 0.00 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ESTRAGOLE | 12 | Sprout Seedling | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EUGENOL | 76 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | 2000.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EUGENOL | 76 | Sprout Seedling | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| FAT | 0 | Fruit | 120000.0 | 280000.0 | 1.50 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FAT | 0 | Plant | 4000.0 | 46000.0 | -0.08 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| (-)-Chronotropic | 1 | 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. |
| (-)-Inotropic | 1 | 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. |
| 11B-HSD-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 5-HETE-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 5-HT-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Abortifacient | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Acaricide | 7 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ACE-Inhibitor | 7 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AChE-Inhibitor | 1 | Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8. |
| Acidifier | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Acidulant | 2 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Acnegenic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Additive | 1 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Adjuvant | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor | 21 | Shimizu, M., Ito, T., Terashima, S., Hayashi, T., Arisawa, M., Morita, N., Kurokawa, S., Ito, K., and Hashimoto, Y. 1984. Inhibition of Lens Aldose Reductase by Flavonoids. Phytochemistry, 23: 1885-1888. |
| Allelochemic | 9 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Allelopathic | 10 | Duke, 1992 * |