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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-FENCHOL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil 1000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Essential Oil 1600.0 -0.47 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Essential Oil 1000.0 198000.0 3.24 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Fruit 44.0 6600.0 2.75 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Plant 135.0 -0.23 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Seed 44.0 6600.0 1.25 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Essential Oil 5800.0 56000.0 -0.07 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit 200.0 8820.0 1.58 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Plant 480.0 -0.14 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Root Essent. Oil 10000.0 -1.13 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Seed 200.0 8820.0 0.46 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Seed Essent. Oil 4700.0 12000.0 -0.66 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Fruit 1.0 -0.45 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Plant 135.0 -0.30 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Seed 1.0 -0.51 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Seed Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit 1.0 6.0 -0.40 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Seed 1.0 6.0 -0.50 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Fruit *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Seed Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cytotoxic (Colon) 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.
Cytotoxic (Lung) 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.
Decongestant 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Degranulant 1 *
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Deliriant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Demulcent 1 *
Dentifrice 1 Martindale's 29th
Deodorant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic 6 *
Detoxicant 2 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diaphoretic 1 *
Diaphoretic? 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 2 *
Digestive 1 Michael Castleman 1991. The Healing Herbs. Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA 436 pp.
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 17 Tyler, V.E.. 1982. The Honest Herbal. George F. Stickley Co., Philadelphia PA. 263 pp.