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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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  2. Foeniculum vulgare

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
BETA-FENCHOL-ACETATE 0 Root Essent. Oil 10000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-FENCHOL-ACETATE 0 Sprout Seedling Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-MYRCENE 2 Essential Oil 6000.0 19000.0 -0.68 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Fruit 170.0 1020.0 -0.30 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Seed 170.0 1020.0 -0.58 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Essential Oil 1000.0 6000.0 -0.60 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit 1.0 780.0 -0.27 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Plant 10.0 -0.42 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-PINENE 13 Seed 1.0 780.0 -0.60 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed 310.0 340.0 -0.50 *
BORON 4 Leaf 1.0 36.0 -0.69 Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Fruit *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Seed 0.5 225.0 -0.56 *
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 880.0 13941.0 2.33 *
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 1000.0 10556.0 -0.54 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CALCIUM 28 Seed 1415.0 13100.0 1.64 *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Leaf 10.0 12.0 -0.84 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPHENE 9 Fruit 10.0 540.0 -0.13 *
CAMPHENE 9 Seed 10.0 540.0 0.28 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Proliferant 1 *
Prooxidant 4 *
Propecic 4 *
Prostaglandigenic 5 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer 1 Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 4 *
Prostatitigenic 1 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 3 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide 3 *
Psychoactive 1 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.
PTK-Inhibitor 1 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 2 *
Radioprotective 1 *
Refrigerant 1 Martindale's 28th
Renoirritant 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.
Respirainhibitor 1 Merck 11th Edition
Respirastimulant 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Roborant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Rubefacient 2 *
Schizophrenigenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.