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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARGININE | 14 | Seed | 6800.0 | 7460.0 | -0.73 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| ASCORBIC-ACID | 112 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASCORBIC-ACID | 112 | Leaf | not available | 123600.0 | 11.02 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ASCORBIC-ACID | 112 | Plant | 340.0 | 3148.0 | 0.15 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| ASCORBIC-ACID | 112 | Seed | not available | 0.0 | -0.34 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASH | 0 | Fruit | 79600.0 | 93026.0 | 0.94 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASH | 0 | Plant | 17000.0 | 170000.0 | 0.89 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| ASH | 0 | Seed | 9720.0 | 90000.0 | 1.27 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASPARTIC-ACID | 3 | Fruit | 18333.0 | 20111.0 | 1.31 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ASPARTIC-ACID | 3 | Seed | 18333.0 | 20111.0 | -0.22 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| AVICULARIN | 7 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books) |
| BENZOIC-ACID | 20 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BENZOIC-ACID | 20 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986. |
| BERGAPTEN | 26 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BERGAPTEN | 26 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-CAROTENE | 53 | Fruit | 0.0 | 1.0 | -0.15 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-CAROTENE | 53 | Plant | 21.0 | 241.0 | 0.58 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| BETA-CAROTENE | 53 | Seed | 0.1 | 0.9 | -0.37 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | 200.0 | -0.69 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-FENCHOL-ACETATE | 0 | Essential Oil | 1000.0 | 6000.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiscoliotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiscorbutic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antiscotomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiseborrheic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antisenility | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiseptic | 33 | Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176) |
| Antiserotonin | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antishingles | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antishock | 2 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Antisickling | 6 | Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990. |
| Antisilicotic | 1 | Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987. |
| Antisinusitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antispare-Tire | 1 | Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95 |
| Antispasmodic | 35 | Fitoterapia No.59-1984. |
| Antispasmophilic | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antistaphylococcic | 12 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antisteatotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antisterility | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antistomatitic | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207. |
| Antistreptococcic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |