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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Pimpinella anisum (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Anise; Sweet Cumin
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
PRISTANE 0 Plant *
PROAZULENE 0 Plant *
PROPIONIC-ACID 6 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 188000.0 213000.0 1.39 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 188000.0 213000.0 -0.18 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PSEUDOISOEUGENOL-(2-METHYL-BUTYRATE) 0 Plant *
PSEUDOISOEUGENOL-(2-METHYL-BUTYRATE) 0 Root *
PSEUDOISOEUGENOL-(2-METHYL-BUTYRATE) 0 Seed 500.0 3000.0 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
PSEUDOISOEUGENOL-(2-METHYL-BUTYRATE) 0 Shoot *
QUERCETIN 176 Seed Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
QUERCETIN-3-GLUCURONIDE 0 Plant *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCURONIDE 2 Seed *
QUERCETIN-GLUCOSIDES 0 Fruit *
QUERCETIN-GLUCOSIDES 0 Seed 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.
RUTIN 87 Fruit *
RUTIN 87 Seed *
SABINENE 5 Fruit 1.0 -0.54 *
SABINENE 5 Seed 1.0 -0.44 *
SAFROLE 29 Essential Oil *
SALICYLATES 7 Seed 30.0 230.0 0.89 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Ancylostomicide 1 Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Androgenic 2 *
Anemiagenic 1 *
Anesthetic 10 *
Angiogenic 1 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 3 *
Ankylostomacide 1 Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic 2 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
Antiacetylcholinesterase 5 *
Antiacne 6 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
AntiADD 1 *
Antiadenomic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadrenergic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiaflatoxin 5 *
AntiAGE 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 16 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Antiaging 4 *