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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
BETA-FARNESENE 0 Plant *
BETA-FARNESENE 0 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.
BETA-HIMACHALENE 0 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.
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit 1.0 -0.30 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Seed 1.0 -0.69 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Tissue Culture *
BISABOLENE 0 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.
BORON 4 Fruit 20.0 -0.40 *
BORON 4 Seed 20.0 -0.20 Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
BUTYRIC-ACID 6 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CADALENE 0 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Plant *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Seed 2060.0 1.20 *
CAFFEOYLQUINIC-ACID 0 Seed *
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 7138.0 7843.0 0.92 *
CALCIUM 28 Seed 6460.0 7843.0 0.68 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CAMPHENE 9 Essential Oil *
CAMPHENE 9 Fruit 119.0 -0.30 *
CAMPHENE 9 Seed 119.0 -1.18 *
CAMPHOR 41 Seed Essent. Oil *
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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 *
Anticervicaldysplasic 1 *
AntiCFS 2 *
Anticheilitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticholinergic 1 *
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 *
Anticlastogen 2 *
Anticlimacteric 3 *
Anticoeliac 1 Martindale's 28th
Anticold 2 *
Anticolic 1 *
Anticolitic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).