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
SUCROSE	14	Stem	not available	3500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUGARS	0	Root	19080.0	90000.0	-0.13	Duke, 1992 *
SUPEROXIDE-DISMUTASE	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIC-ACID	41	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARTARIC-ACID	6	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL	18	Root	not available	not available	not available	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
TERPINEOL	18	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Root	not available	1.7	-0.44	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
THIAMINE	0	Root	0.4	1.7	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THUJ-4(10)-ENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TIN	4	Root	3.4	16.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
TOLUENE	1	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRACE-ELEMENTS	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-BETA-FARNESENE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-BETA-FARNESENE	2	Root Essent. Oil	not available	80000.0	0.95	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRICOSANOIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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.