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.
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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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
AntiHIV	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antihomocysteine	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihydrophobic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihypercholesterolemic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperkinetic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypoglycemic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiileus	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiimplantation	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiimpotence	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiinfarctal	1	Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.
Antiinfective	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinfertility	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory	38	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinsomniac	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiischemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antijet-lag	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Antikeratotic	2	Martindale's 29th