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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
TRIGONELLINE	15	Seed	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Fruit	2530.0	2775.0	2.70	Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Seed	2530.0	2775.0	-0.19	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TYROSINE	8	Fruit	4100.0	4498.0	0.86	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Seed	4100.0	4498.0	-0.75	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Seed	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
UREASE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
UREASE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
UREASE	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
VALINE	3	Fruit	9150.0	10037.0	1.15	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Seed	9150.0	10037.0	-0.24	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Seed	not available	0.5	-1.53	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Fruit	80670.0	104796.0	-2.89	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Plant	842000.0	900000.0	0.55	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
WATER	0	Seed	not available	892000.0	2.55	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
AntiADD	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiadenomic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadrenalinic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiadrenergic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiaflatoxin	5	Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE	2	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
Antiaggregant	15	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic	4	Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antialdosteronic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiallergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	11	J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic	6	Martindale's 28th
Antialzheimeran	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran?	2	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.