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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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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
QUERCETIN-3'-METHYLETHER 2 Rhizome Wealth of India.
RHAMNOCITRIN 7 Rhizome Wealth of India.
STARCH 5 Rhizome 200000.0 250000.0 -1.17 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
STEROLS 0 Rhizome Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
TANNIN 35 Rhizome List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Rhizome Wealth of India.
TRANS-ALPHA-BERGAMOTENE 0 Rhizome Wealth of India.
YAKUCHINONE 0 Rhizome *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antirheumatic 1 *
Antirhinitic 1 *
Antisalmonella 1 *
Antiseptic 9 Merck 11th Edition
Antiserotonin 1 *
Antishock 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antisinusitic 1 *
Antispasmodic 10 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antistaphylococcic 3 *
Antistreptococcic 2 *
Antisyndrome-X 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antithiamin 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombic 1 *
Antithromboxane 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.
AntiTNF 1 *
Antitrypanosomic 1 *
Antitumor 5 Zheng, G-Q., Kenney, P.M., and Lam, L.K.T. Sesquiterpenes From Clove (Eugenia caryophyllata) As Potential Anticarcinogenic Agents. Journal of Natural Products 55(7): 999-1003, 1992.
Antitumor (Bladder) 1 *
Antitumor (Breast) 2 *
Antitumor (Cervix) 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.