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
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	509000.0	552000.0	-1.23	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	453000.0	552000.0	0.11	Duke, 1992 *
CARVENE	0	Fruit	not available	4240.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARVENE	0	Seed	not available	4240.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE	19	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHAMAZULENE	10	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Seed	not available	1000.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Seed	not available	3950.0	2.14	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMALDEHYDE	60	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	6	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-ANETHOLE	1	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-ANETHOLE	1	Fruit	not available	200.0	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-ANETHOLE	1	Seed	not available	200.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-ANETHOLE	1	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-OCIMENE	3	Fruit	not available	25.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-OCIMENE	3	Seed	not available	25.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Seed	not available	9.0	-0.53	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
COUMARINS	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Bronchorelaxant	2	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bruchifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Bufocide	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist	15	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist?	1	Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Cancer-Preventive	37	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	8	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Candidistat	3	Duke, 1992 *
Capillarigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Capillariprotective	2	Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic?	2	Martindale's 29th
Cardiac	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cardiodepressant	2	Martindale's 29th
Cardioprotective	7	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Carminative	7	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.