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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Foeniculum vulgare (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Fennel
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
N-DOCOSYL-ARACHIDATE 0 Plant *
N-EICOSYL-ARACHIDATE 0 Plant *
N-HEXACOSYL-ARACHIDATE 0 Plant *
N-OCTACOSYL-ARACHIDATE 0 Plant *
N-TETRACOSYL-ARACHIDATE 0 Plant Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
N-TRIACONTYL-ARACHIDATE 0 Plant Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
NIACIN 39 Fruit 60.0 66.0 0.07 *
NIACIN 39 Plant 7.0 65.0 -0.16 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NIACIN 39 Seed 7.0 66.0 0.69 *
NICKEL 3 Fruit 1.0 -0.48 *
NICKEL 3 Seed 1.0 -0.72 *
O-COUMARIC-ACID 4 Fruit *
O-COUMARIC-ACID 4 Seed Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
OCTADECA-5,6-DIENOIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
OCTAN-1-AL 0 Seed Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit 22000.0 108712.0 0.36 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 22000.0 108712.0 -0.09 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
OSTHENOL 0 Fruit *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Artemicide 4 Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Arteriodilator 1 Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Ascaricide 2 *
Asthma-preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent 1 Martindale's 28th
ATPase-Inhibitor 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Autotoxic 1 *
Bacteriophagicide 1 de Vries, D. J. and Blumberg, P. M., Thermoregulatory effects of resiniferatoxin in the mouse: comparison with capsaicin, Life Sciences, 44, 1989, 711-715.
Bacteriostatic 1 Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis.
Bacteristat 3 *
Barbituate-Synergist 2 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker 1 *
Beta-Blocker 2 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Bradycardiac 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchoprotectant 1 *
Bronchorelaxant 3 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bruchifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Bruchiphobe 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Bufocide 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.