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Plant Foeniculum vulgare (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Fennel
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
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
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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
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 Duke, 1992 *
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Deliriant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Demulcent 1 Duke, 1992 *
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 Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic? 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 2 Duke, 1992 *
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.