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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
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
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.