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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
GYPENOSIDE-XVII 0 Tissue Culture 960.0 *
HARMAN 7 Root *
HENEICOSANOIC-ACID 0 Root *
HEPTADEC-1-EN-4,6-DIYN-3,9,10-TRIOL 0 Root *
HEPTADEC-1-EN-4,6-DIYNE-3,9,10-TRIOL 0 Root *
HEPTADEC-1-EN-4,6-DIYNE-3,9-DIOL 0 Root 150.0 *
HEPTADECA-1-4-DIENE-6-8-DIYNE-3-10-DIOL 0 Root *
HEPTADECA-1-8-DIEN-4-6-DIYN-3-10-DIOL 0 Root *
HEPTADECA-1-8-DIENE-4-6-DIYN-10-OL-3-ONE 0 Root *
HEPTADECA-1-8-DIENE-4-6-DIYN-3-10-DIONE 0 Root *
HEPTADECA-1-8-DIENE-4-6-DIYNE-3-10-DIOL 0 Root 14.6 -1.00 *
HEPTADECA-1-9-DIEN-4-6-DIYN-3-OL 0 Root *
HEPTADECA-1-EN-4,6-DIYN-3,9-DIOL 0 Root 150.0 Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
HEPTADECA-1-ENE-4-6-DIYNE-3-9-10-TRIOL 0 Root 1.5 *
HEPTADECA-1-TRANS-8-DIENE-4-6-DIYNE-3-10-DIOL 0 Root 5.2 *
HEPTADECAN-1-OL 0 Root Essent. Oil 19000.0 *
HEPTADECAN-2-ONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 20000.0 *
HEPTADECAN-2-ONE 0 Root Essent. Oil 43000.0 *
HEPTADECAN-2-ONE 0 Stem Essent. Oil 20000.0 *
HEPTADECANOIC-ACID 1 Root *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Insulinic 2 *
Insulinogenic 3 *
Insulinotonic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
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 *
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 *
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Juvabional 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic 1 *
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 *
Laxative 8 *
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 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 1 *
Lipogenic 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.