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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
PANAX-POLYPHENOLIC-PERMETHYL-ETHER 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-POLYSACCHARIDE 0 Root 30000.0 40000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-POLYSACCHARIDE 0 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-POLYSACCHARIDE-GH-1 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-POLYSACCHARIDE-GL-4 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-POLYSACCHARIDE-GL-4-II-B-1-II 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-POLYSACCHARIDE-GL-AI-A 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-POLYSACCHARIDE-GL-AI-B 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-POLYSACCHARIDE-GL-B-III 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-POLYSACCHARIDE-GL-NI-A 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-POLYSACCHARIDE-GL-NI-B 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-POLYSACCHARIDE-P-N 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-POLYSACCHARIDE-S-2-A 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-PROTEIN 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-SAPONIN-A 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-SAPONIN-C 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-TRITERPENE-GF-VI 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAX-TRITERPENE-GF-VII 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAXACOL 1 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAXACOL 1 Tissue Culture 37.0 50.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 2 Martindale's 29th
FLavor 23 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
FPTase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fungicide 14 Martindale's 29th
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 3 Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective 3 Duke, 1992 *
Glaucomagenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glucogonogenic 1 LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The
Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
Glutathionergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic 2 Martindale's 29th
Gonadotrophic 2 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
GST-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hematopoietic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic 1 Duke, 1992 *