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
EUGENOL	76	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	176000.0	304000.0	1.68	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	80000.0	304000.0	0.20	Duke, 1992 *
FENCHONE	6	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Fruit	not available	161000.0	0.18	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Seed	120000.0	250000.0	0.91	Duke, 1992 *
FOENICULIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURAL	6	Fruit	not available	30000.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURAL	6	Seed	not available	30000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-HIMACHALENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-HIMACHALENE	0	Seed	200.0	1200.0	not available	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
GLUCINOL	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROQUINONE	32	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.
HYDROQUINONE-METHYL-ETHER	0	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.
IMPERATORIN	25	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Fruit	391.0	409.0	1.09	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Seed	348.0	409.0	1.20	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ISOCARYOPHYLLENE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCHAVIBETOL	0	Fruit	not available	250.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCHAVIBETOL	0	Seed	not available	250.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiesophagitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	5	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antifatigue	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant	13	Duke, 1992 *
Antifertility	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrositic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antifibrotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric	1	Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antigliomic	1	Duke, 1992 *