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Common Names
Lesser Galangal; Chinese Ginger
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5-METHOXY-7-(4'-HYDROXY-3'METHOXYPHENYL)-1-PHENYL-3-HEPTA... | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 5-METHOXYPHENYL-7-(4''-HYDROXYPHENYL)-HEPTAN-3-ONE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | 4.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 7-(4''-HYDROXY-3'-METHOXY-PHENYL)-PHENYLHEPT-3,5-DIONE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | 1.6 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 7-(4'-HYDROXY-3'-METHOXYPHENYL)-1-PHENYL-3,5-HEPTADIONE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 7-(4'-HYDROXY-3'-METHOXYPHENYL)-1-PHENYLHEPT-4-EN-3-ONE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | 48.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 7-(4'-HYDROXY-3'-METHOXYPHENYL)-PHENYLHEPT-4-EN-3-ONE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books) |
| 7-HYDROXY-3,5-DIMETHOXYFLAVONE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| ALPHA-CADINENE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books) |
| ALPINOL | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-ELEMENE | 5 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| CAMPHOR | 41 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| D-ALPHA-PINENE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| DELTA-CADINENE | 9 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| DIARYLHEPTANOIDS | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DIHYDROYASHABUSHIKETOL | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books) |
| DIOXYFLAVONAL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EO | 0 | Rhizome | 3000.0 | 10000.0 | -0.53 | Duke, 1992 * |
| EUGENOL | 76 | Rhizome | 90.0 | 400.0 | -0.70 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiepileptic | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antiescherichic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiesophagitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiestrogenic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifatigue | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifeedant | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifertility | 1 | Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989. |
| Antifibrosarcomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifibrositic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antiflu | 3 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195. |
| Antigastric | 1 | Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85. |
| Antigenotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigingivitic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigliomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiglutamaergic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigonadotropic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| AntiGTF | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihalitosic | 1 | American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993. |
| Antihepatotoxic | 2 | Joyeux, M., Rolland, A., Fleurentin, J., Mortier, F., and Dorfman, P. 1989. Tert-Butyl Hydroperoxide-Induced Injury in Isolated Rat Hepatocytes: A Model for Studying Anti-Hepatotoxic Crude Drugs. Planta Medica 56(2): 171-173, 1990. |
| Antiherpetic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |