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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Alpinia officinarum (Zingiberaceae)

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
FLUORIDE 3 Rhizome 5.4 -1.00 *
GALANGIN 13 Rhizome 1000.0 *
GALANGIN-3-METHYL-ETHER 0 Rhizome *
GALANGOL 0 Rhizome *
GAMMA-CADINENE 0 Rhizome Wealth of India.
GINGEROLS 0 Rhizome Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ISORHAMNETIN 11 Rhizome Wealth of India.
IZALPIN 0 Rhizome *
KAEMPFERID 0 Rhizome 600.0 800.0 *
KAEMPFERIDE 5 Rhizome 600.0 800.0 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Rhizome *
LIMONENE 60 Rhizome Wealth of India.
LINALOL 0 Rhizome *
LINALOOL 53 Rhizome Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
MANGANESE 14 Plant *
METHYL-CINNAMATE 5 Plant *
METHYL-ISOVALERATE 2 Rhizome Wealth of India.
P-CYMENE 16 Rhizome Wealth of India.
PHENYL-ALKYL-KETONES 1 Rhizome Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
QUERCETIN 176 Rhizome *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antihistaminic 5 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
AntiHIV 2 *
Antihydrophobic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihypertensive 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiimplantation 1 *
Antiinflammatory 10 *
Antikeratotic 1 *
Antilaryngitic 1 *
Antileishmanic 1 *
Antileukemic 3 Life Sciences 55: 1061.
Antileukotriene 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilipolytic 1 *
Antilipoperoxidant 1 *
Antilithic 1 *
Antilithic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphocytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic 2 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.
Antimalarial 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimange 1 *
Antimelanomic 1 *