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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Antiglycosuric | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigoiter | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antigonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antigonadotropic | 3 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Antigout | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigranular | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiGTF | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihalitosic | 1 | American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993. |
| Antihangover | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiheartburn | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihelicobacter | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihematuric | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihemolytic | 2 | 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. |
| Antihemorrhagic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antihemorrhoidal | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihepatitic | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antihepatoadenomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihepatocarcinogenic | 1 | Akao, M. and Kuroda, K. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Fumaric Acid on Hepatocarcinogenesis by Thioacetamide in Mice. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(7): 2012-2014, 1990. |
| Antihepatotic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antihepatotoxic | 12 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |