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
(+)-ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
(+)-ALPHA-PINENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
(+)-FENCHONE	0	Essential Oil	1000.0	8000.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
(+)-FENCHONE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	17000.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
(+)-FENCHONE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
(+)-PINENE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
1,8-CINEOLE	67	Essential Oil	1000.0	12000.0	-0.75	Jim Duke's personal files.
1,8-CINEOLE	67	Fruit	1.0	300.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
1,8-CINEOLE	67	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
1,8-CINEOLE	67	Seed	1.0	300.0	-0.67	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
3-CARENE	0	Fruit	120.0	720.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-CARENE	0	Seed	120.0	720.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
5-METHOXY-PSORALEN	10	Fruit	0.0	5.0	-0.93	Duke, 1992 *
5-METHOXY-PSORALEN	10	Seed	0.0	5.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
8-METHOXY-PSORALEN	21	Fruit	0.0	1.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
8-METHOXY-PSORALEN	21	Seed	0.0	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ABSCISIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	0.4	1.56	Jim Duke's personal files.
ACETYL-CHOLINE	19	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ALANINE	3	Fruit	7890.0	8655.0	1.94	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Seed	7890.0	8655.0	-0.32	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)

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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
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hallucinogenic	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.
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	4	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatocarcinogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	18	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoregenerative	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Hepatotonic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	6	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	15	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	2	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	2	Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	1	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hyperglycemic	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.