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
GLYCOLLIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIJAVERIN	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
HISTIDINE	7	Fruit	3310.0	3631.0	1.35	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Seed	3310.0	3631.0	-0.66	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
IMPERATORIN	25	Fruit	0.0	3.0	-0.80	Duke, 1992 *
IMPERATORIN	25	Seed	0.0	3.0	-1.31	Duke, 1992 *
IODINE	12	Fruit	not available	0.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
IODINE	12	Seed	not available	0.0	-0.28	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
IRON	6	Fruit	100.0	240.0	0.42	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Plant	27.0	270.0	-0.42	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
IRON	6	Seed	2.3	21.0	-0.60	Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE	3	Fruit	6950.0	7624.0	1.20	Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE	3	Seed	6950.0	7624.0	-0.37	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOPIMPINELLIN	15	Fruit	0.0	1.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ISOPIMPINELLIN	15	Seed	0.0	1.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JASMONIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
JUGLANIN	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
KAEMPFEROL	75	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.

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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
Colorant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Comedolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Contraceptive	2	Martindale's 28th
Convulsant	2	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Copper-Antagonist	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
Copper-Chelator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant	3	Martindale's 28th
COX-1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Culicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Activator	1	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	3	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic	10	Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Cytotoxic (Breast)	2	Saqib, Q. N., Hui, Y. H., Anderson, J. E. and McLaughlin, J. L. 1990. Bioactive Furanocoumarins from the Berries of Zanthoxylum americanum. Phytotherapy Research 4(6): 216-219.