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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |