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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
FAT 0 Seed 17604.0 163000.0 -0.54 *
FENCHOL 0 Seed Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
FENCHOL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
FENCHONE 6 Essential Oil 87000.0 1.41 Jim Duke's personal files.
FENCHONE 6 Fruit 10.0 24000.0 1.00 *
FENCHONE 6 Plant 30.0 -0.47 *
FENCHONE 6 Seed 10800.0 150000.0 *
FENCHONE 6 Seed Essent. Oil 7000.0 130000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
FENCHYL-ALCOHOL 1 Seed Essent. Oil Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
FENICULIN 0 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
FERULIC-ACID 61 Fruit *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Seed 0.5 -0.43 *
FIBER 15 Fruit 144250.0 183338.0 0.39 *
FIBER 15 Plant 5000.0 50000.0 -1.28 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FIBER 15 Seed 144250.0 183338.0 0.38 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Seed 172000.0 0.79 *
FOENICULIN 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
FOENICULOSIDE-I 0 Seed 11.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
FOENICULOSIDE-II 0 Seed 4.8 Jim Duke's personal files.
FOENICULOSIDE-III 0 Seed 10.8 Jim Duke's personal files.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Occuloirritant 1 *
Odontolytic 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 7 Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osmoregulator 1 *
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Oviposition-Stimulant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant 1 *
Oxidant 2 Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
Oxytocic 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Ozone-Scavenger 1 *
P21-Inducer 1 *
P450-2B1-Inhibitor 7 *
P450-Inducer 3 *
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 2 *
Paralytic 1 Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
Parasympathomimetic 2 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Pediculicide 1 *
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfume 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry