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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Illicium verum (Illiciaceae)

Common Names
Star Anise; Chinese Star Anise; Chinesischer Sternanis (Ger.); Sternanis (Ger.); anis de China (Sp.); anis estrellado (Sp.)
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit 1.0 -0.30 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
BETA-PINENE 13 Plant 1.0 -0.43 *
BETA-SELININE 0 Fruit 1.0 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit 930.0 0.43 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CALAMENE 0 Fruit 650.0 *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Fruit 130.0 0.44 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 1.0 -0.35 *
CARVONE 19 Fruit 1.0 -0.50 *
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Fruit 85.0 3600.0 -0.29 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CATECHINS 1 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CHAVICOL-METHYL-ETHER 0 Fruit *
CINNAMIC-ALCOHOL 3 Fruit 1.0 50.0 *
CIS-ALPHA-BERGAMOTENE 0 Fruit 1.0 50.0 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CIS-ANETHOLE 1 Fruit 1.0 140.0 -1.11 *
CIS-BETA-FARNESENE 0 Fruit 1.0 40.0 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CIS-BETA-OCIMENE 0 Fruit 100.0 *
D-FENCHONE 0 Fruit *
D-LIMONENE 19 Fruit *
D-PINENE 0 Fruit *
DELTA-3-CARENE 8 Fruit 25.0 465.0 0.16 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hepatotonic 1 *
Hepatotoxic 2 Martindale's 29th
Herbicide 8 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histaminic 1 *
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Hypertensive 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypnotic 1 *
Hypocholesterolemic 6 *
Hypocholesterolemic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic 2 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic 1 *
Hypotensive 2 *
Hypothermic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Immunomodulator 2 *
Immunostimulant 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Immunosuppressant 1 *
Inflammatory 1 *
Insecticide 12 *
Insectifuge 17 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 3 Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.