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.
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
CIS-OCIMENE	3	Fruit	40.0	600.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-OCIMENE	3	Seed	40.0	600.0	1.00	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CITRAL	53	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRIC-ACID	23	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
CITRONELLAL	20	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRONELLOL	15	Essential Oil	not available	2800.0	-0.77	Jim Duke's personal files.
COBALT	2	Fruit	1.0	31.0	3.22	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Seed	0.3	3.1	-0.07	Duke, 1992 *
COLUMBIANETIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COLUMBIANETIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Fruit	8.0	24.0	0.87	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Seed	8.0	24.0	0.83	Duke, 1992 *
CYNARIN	23	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CYNAROSIDE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CYSTINE	2	Fruit	2220.0	2435.0	1.46	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Seed	2220.0	2435.0	-0.50	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
D-LIMONENE	19	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-LIMONENE	19	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
DI-P-METHOXYSTILBENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antibacillary	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	48	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticalculic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	11	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.