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
PRISTANE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROAZULENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROPIONIC-ACID	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	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	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOISOEUGENOL-(2-METHYL-BUTYRATE)	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOISOEUGENOL-(2-METHYL-BUTYRATE)	0	Seed	500.0	3000.0	not available	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
PSEUDOISOEUGENOL-(2-METHYL-BUTYRATE)	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	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.
QUERCETIN-3-GLUCURONIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCURONIDE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-GLUCOSIDES	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-GLUCOSIDES	0	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.
RUTIN	87	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Fruit	not available	1.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Seed	not available	1.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
SAFROLE	29	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLATES	7	Seed	30.0	230.0	0.89	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antiakathisic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic	3	Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	9	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialopecic	5	Martindale's 28th
Antialzheimeran	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran?	4	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antianginal	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiangiogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antianorectic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antianorexic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antianxiety	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiapertif	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiapoplectic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiappetant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarachidonate	1	Duke, 1992 *