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
TRANS-ANETHOLE	8	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	825000.0	0.68	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-ANETHOLE	8	Plant	14000.0	54000.0	2.44	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-ANETHOLE	8	Seed	14000.0	126000.0	1.12	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-ANETHOLE	8	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	752000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-ANETHOLE	8	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	875000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Tissue Culture	not available	5000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIPRENINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIPRENINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITAMIN-K-1	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITAMIN-K-1	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITAMIN-K-1	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Seed	95000.0	110000.0	-0.45	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
XANTHOTOXIN	43	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Fruit	not available	59.0	0.86	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Seed	not available	59.0	0.39	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Anticarcinogenic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	1	Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic	4	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticataract	6	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticervicaldysplasic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticholinesterase	3	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Anticholinesterase?	1	L. Gracza (1985) as cited by Buchbauer re antiacetylcholinesterase.
Antichoreic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlastogen	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlimacteric	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticoeliac	1	Martindale's 28th
Anticold	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).