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

Common Names

Anise; Sweet Cumin

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
ANETHOLE	36	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANETHOLE	36	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ANETHOLE	36	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANETHOLE	36	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANETHOLE	36	Seed Essent. Oil	800000.0	900000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ANETHOLE	36	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANETHOLE	36	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANISALDEHYDE	7	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANISALDEHYDE	7	Fruit	not available	300.0	-1.35	Duke, 1992 *
ANISALDEHYDE	7	Seed	140.0	1960.0	1.38	Duke, 1992 *
ANISIC-ACID	6	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANISIC-ACID	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANISIC-ACID	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	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.
ANISKETONE	0	Fruit	not available	731.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANISKETONE	0	Seed	not available	731.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANISYL KETONE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANISYL-ALCOHOL	2	Fruit	100.0	1750.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ANISYL-ALCOHOL	2	Seed	100.0	1750.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN	101	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
APIGENIN-7-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antimanic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastalgic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelasmic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antimenopausal	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antimenorrhagic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimigraine	2	Martindale's 29th
Antimite	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimitotic	7	Gawron, A. and Glowniak, K. 1987. Cytostatic Activity of Coumarins in vitro. Planta Medica 1987: 526.
Antimitral-valve-prolapse	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic	23	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimycotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antimyocarditic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antinephritic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antinephrolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *