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
DIANETHOLE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIANETHOLE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DILLAPIOL	6	Root Essent. Oil	873000.0	900000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DILLAPIOL	6	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
DIPENTENE	7	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIPENTENE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
EO	0	Fruit	10000.0	80000.0	0.73	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Plant	not available	10000.0	0.02	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Root	5000.0	7000.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Seed	2160.0	60000.0	0.21	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ESTRAGOLE	12	Essential Oil	27000.0	56000.0	-1.62	Jim Duke's personal files.
ESTRAGOLE	12	Fruit	not available	64000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGOLE	12	Seed	not available	64000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGOLE	12	Seed Essent. Oil	30000.0	344000.0	0.00	Jim Duke's personal files.
ESTRAGOLE	12	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
EUGENOL	76	Root Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
EUGENOL	76	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
FAT	0	Fruit	120000.0	280000.0	1.50	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Plant	4000.0	46000.0	-0.08	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses

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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
Antidysmenorrheic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antidyspeptic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysphagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiEBV	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antieczemic	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiedemic	8	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antielastase	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiemetic	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiencephalitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiencephalopathic	6	Martindale's 29th
Antiencephalopathic?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antienteritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiepileptic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiepitheleomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antierythemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiesophagitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.