Plant Foeniculum vulgare (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Fennel

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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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

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Allergenic	27	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Amylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Glucosidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amphetaminagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amphiglycemic?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analgesic	20	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic?	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anemiagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	2	Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiacetylcholinesterase	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacid	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiacne	10	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Antiacrodermatitic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic	1	Duke, 1992 *