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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-PHELLANDRENE 0 Essential Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
(+)-ALPHA-PINENE 0 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
(+)-FENCHONE 0 Essential Oil 1000.0 8000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
(+)-FENCHONE 0 Seed Essent. Oil 17000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
(+)-FENCHONE 0 Sprout Seedling Jim Duke's personal files.
(+)-PINENE 0 Seed 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 *
1,8-CINEOLE 67 Plant 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 *
3-CARENE 0 Seed 120.0 720.0 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 *
5-METHOXY-PSORALEN 10 Seed 0.0 5.0 -1.00 *
8-METHOXY-PSORALEN 21 Fruit 0.0 1.0 -0.71 *
8-METHOXY-PSORALEN 21 Seed 0.0 1.0 *
ABSCISIC-ACID 0 Seed 0.4 1.56 Jim Duke's personal files.
ACETYL-CHOLINE 19 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
ALANINE 3 Fruit 7890.0 8655.0 1.94 *
ALANINE 3 Seed 7890.0 8655.0 -0.32 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Lactagogue 1 *
Larvicide 3 *
Larvistat 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 7 *
Laxative? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic 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
Leucocytogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 5 *
Lipotropic 2 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 9 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic 3 Martindale's 29th
Lubricant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 *
Lymphocytogenic 1 Gawron, A., Gorski*, G., Glowniak**, K. 1989. Increased proliferation of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated human leucocytes after 8-methoxypsoralen treatment. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 194-195, 1990.
MAO-A-Inhibitor 2 *
MAO-B-Inhibitor 1 *
MAO-Inhibitor 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer 1 *