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Plant Foeniculum vulgare (Apiaceae)

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
FAT 0 Seed 17604.0 163000.0 -0.54 Duke, 1992 *
FENCHOL 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
FENCHOL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
FENCHONE 6 Essential Oil not available 87000.0 1.41 Jim Duke's personal files.
FENCHONE 6 Fruit 10.0 24000.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
FENCHONE 6 Plant not available 30.0 -0.47 Duke, 1992 *
FENCHONE 6 Seed 10800.0 150000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
FENCHONE 6 Seed Essent. Oil 7000.0 130000.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
FENCHYL-ALCOHOL 1 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
FENICULIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
FERULIC-ACID 61 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Seed not available 0.5 -0.43 Duke, 1992 *
FIBER 15 Fruit 144250.0 183338.0 0.39 Duke, 1992 *
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 not available 172000.0 0.79 Duke, 1992 *
FOENICULIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
FOENICULOSIDE-I 0 Seed not available 11.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
FOENICULOSIDE-II 0 Seed not available 4.8 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
FOENICULOSIDE-III 0 Seed not available 10.8 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Proliferant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant 4 Duke, 1992 *
Propecic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic 5 Duke, 1992 *
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 Duke, 1992 *
Prostatitigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
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 Duke, 1992 *
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 Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 2 Duke, 1992 *
Radioprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
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 Duke, 1992 *
Schizophrenigenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.