Plant Panax ginseng (Araliaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Chinese Ginseng; Oriental Ginseng; Ginseng; Korean Ginseng

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
GALANIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID	22	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CADINENE	0	Flower Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-ELEMENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-ELEMENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	60000.0	100000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-PATCHOULENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-PATCHOULENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-SELINENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
GAMMA-SELINENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENSENOSIDE-RD	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENTISIC-ACID	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMANIUM	0	Root	0.1	320.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENAN-PA	0	Root	not available	235.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENAN-PB	0	Root	not available	170.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENAN-S-I-A	0	Root	not available	106.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENAN-S-II-A	0	Root	not available	90.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENG-POLYPEPTIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENG-POLYPEPTIDE-GPP	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOL	0	Root	not available	9.6	not available	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
Antihemorrhagic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihepatitic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatocarcinogenic	1	Akao, M. and Kuroda, K. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Fumaric Acid on Hepatocarcinogenesis by Thioacetamide in Mice. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(7): 2012-2014, 1990.
Antihepatomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic	8	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihiccup	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihistaminic	8	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	5	Tan, G.T., Pezzuto, J.M., Kinghorn,* A.D., Hughes, S.H. Evaluation Of Natural Products As Inhibitors Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Reverse Transcriptase. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 143-154, 1991.
Antihomocysteine	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihomocystinuric	1	Martindale's 29th
AntiHot-Flash	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperglycemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.