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Common Names
Eleuthero Ginseng; Siberian Ginseng; Spiny Ginseng; Wu jia; Ci wu jia (Pinyin)
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUGARS | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SUGARS | 0 | Root | 18900.0 | 90000.0 | -0.13 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SYRINGARESINOL | 1 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SYRINGARESINOL-DI-O-GLUCOSIDE | 2 | Root | not available | 1300.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SYRINGARESINOL-DIGLUCOSIDE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| SYRINGARESINOL-GLUCOSIDE | 1 | Root | not available | 790.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SYRINGIC-ACID | 6 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SYRINGIN | 9 | Root | 40.0 | 4000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SYRINGIN | 9 | Root Bark | not available | 1370.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SYRINGIN | 9 | Stem | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SYRINGIN | 9 | Stem Bark | not available | 24.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SYRINGIN | 9 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| THIAMINE | 0 | Root | 0.4 | 2.0 | -0.46 | Duke, 1992 * |
| VANILLIC-ACID | 24 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VANILLIN | 28 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VIT-E | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VITAMIN-E | 75 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Kameoka, H. and Nakai, K. 1987. Components of essential oil from the root of Glycyrrhiza-glabra. Nippon Gogeikagaku Kaishi 61(9): 1119-1122. |
| WATER | 0 | Root | not available | 790000.0 | 0.14 | Duke, 1992 * |
| WAX | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| ZINC | 77 | Root | 0.9 | 4.2 | -0.87 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Anorexic | 2 | Martindale's 28th |
| Anthelmintic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antiacne | 4 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Antiacrodermatitic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antiacrodynic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiadenomic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Antiadenoviral | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207. |
| Antiadrenergic | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Antiaflatoxin | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiAGE | 2 | 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 |
| Antiaggregant | 9 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiaging | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiakathisic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antialcoholic | 3 | Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications. |
| Antiallergic | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antialopecic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antialzheimeran | 5 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antiamblyopic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antianabolic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiandrogenic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |