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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Panax ginseng (Araliaceae)

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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
MORETENOL 0 Seed Oil *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Root *
N-9-FORMYL-HARMAN 0 Root 0.1 *
N-FORMYL-HARMAN 0 Root *
N-NONACOSANE 1 Leaf Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
N-NONACOSANE 1 Rhizome *
N-NONACOSANE 1 Root *
N-PENTADECANE 0 Plant *
N-PENTADECANE 0 Root Essent. Oil 18000.0 *
NEO-INTERMEDEOL 0 Plant 10.4 *
NEOCLOVENE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
NEOXANTHIN 2 Leaf *
NEROLIDOL 11 Shoot *
NERVONIC-ACID 0 Root *
NIACIN 39 Root 17.0 80.0 0.86 *
NICOTINAMIDE 2 Root *
NICOTINIC-ACID 11 Root *
NORHARMAN 2 Root *
NOTOGINSENOSIDE-R-1 0 Root 20.0 *
O-ALPHA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL...FRUCTOFURANOSIDE 0 Root List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antipoliomyelitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolyp 1 *
Antiporphyric 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant 7 Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiprostaglandin 4 *
Antiprostatadenomic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 5 *
Antipruritic 2 Martindale's 28th
Antipsoriac 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipsychotic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antipyretic 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular 10 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 *
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinitic Optometry 1 *
Antiretinopathic 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
Antiretinotic 1 *
AntiReye's 1 Martindale's 29th