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
PANAXYNE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PANAXYNE-EPOXIDE	0	Root	1.8	9.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PANAXYNOL	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
PANAXYNOL-LINOLEATE	0	Root	not available	1.3	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PANAXYTRIOL	1	Root	14.2	250.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Root	not available	6.6	-1.57	Duke, 1992 *
PATCHOULENE	2	Root Essent. Oil	not available	20000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PELARGONIDIN-3-MONOGLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit Epidermis	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTADECANOIC-ACID	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PERLARGONIDIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PERLOLYRINE	0	Root	not available	1.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENOLASE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYL-ACETALDEHYDE	2	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLETHANOL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHEOPHYTIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	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.