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
O-ALPHA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL...GLUCOPYRANOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OBTUSIFOLIOL	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTACOSAN-1-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Root	150.0	700.0	0.85	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXYCINNAMIC-ACID	1	Root	not available	26.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	160000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Root Essent. Oil	not available	86000.0	1.29	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Stem Essent. Oil	not available	160000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PANACENE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
PANASENOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
PANASENOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PANASINSANOL-A	0	Root	not available	2.3	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PANASINSANOL-B	0	Root	not available	12.5	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.