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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
XANTHOTOXIN	43	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOTOXIN	43	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Fruit	7.1	33.0	0.08	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Seed	0.1	0.7	-1.26	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Myocontractant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	8	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Myotonic	1	Martindale's 29th
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Natriuretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	15	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
NEP-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nephroprotective	1	Toxicol Appl. Pharmacol. 1996.
Nephrotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroexcitant	1	Martindale's 28th
Neuroinhibitor	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neuroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	4	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Neurotransmitter	2	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *