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Plant 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 not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-9-FORMYL-HARMAN 0 Root not available 0.1 not available Duke, 1992 *
N-FORMYL-HARMAN 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-NONACOSANE 1 Leaf not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
N-NONACOSANE 1 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-NONACOSANE 1 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-PENTADECANE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-PENTADECANE 0 Root Essent. Oil not available 18000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NEO-INTERMEDEOL 0 Plant not available 10.4 not available Duke, 1992 *
NEOCLOVENE 0 Plant not available not available not available J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
NEOXANTHIN 2 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NEROLIDOL 11 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NERVONIC-ACID 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN 39 Root 17.0 80.0 0.86 Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINAMIDE 2 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINIC-ACID 11 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NORHARMAN 2 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NOTOGINSENOSIDE-R-1 0 Root not available 20.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
O-ALPHA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL...FRUCTOFURANOSIDE 0 Root not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiadenomic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
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 14 Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antialdosteronic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialkalotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiallergenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic 10 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Antialopecic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran 6 Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran? 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiamnesic 1 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antianacarditic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.