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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiandrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic	5	Martindale's 28th
Antianginal	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiangiogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antianorectic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antianorexic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antianoxic	1	Yamahara, J., Matsuda, H., Naitoh, Y., Fujimura, H., and Tamai, Y. 1990. Antianoxic Action and Active Constituents of Atractylodis Lanceae Rhizoma. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(7): 2033-2034, 1990.
Antianxiety	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiaphthic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiarabiflavinotic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiarachidonate	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	6	Merck 11th Edition
Antiarteriosclerotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	11	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	7	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatheromic	1	Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	35	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.