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
CYCLOEUCALENOL	3	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTEINE	13	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-FRUCTOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
D-GLUCOSE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
D-SUCROSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAMMARAN-3-BETA-6-ALPHA-12-BETA-20(R)-25-PENTAOL	0	Shoot	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAMMARAN-3-BETA-6-ALPHA-12-BETA-20(R)-25-PENTAOL-6-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOPYRANOSYL(1-2)-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTERINE	0	Leaf	not available	3.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTERINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTEROL	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTEROL	5	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTEROL	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTEROL	5	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2,TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DENDROLASIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DENSICHINE	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
Insulinic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinotonic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant	10	Duke, 1992 *
JNK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Keratolytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lactogenic	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Larvicide	5	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	8	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic	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
Leucocytogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipogenic	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.