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
PROTOPANAXADIOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOPANAXADIOL-GLYCOSIDES	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PUTRESCINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PYROGLUTAMIC-ACID	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PYRUVIC-ACID	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUINQUENOSIDE-R-1	0	Root	not available	20.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Root	0.4	1.8	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Root	not available	3.4	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
SANTALENE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN-II	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN-II	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN-II	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN-III	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN-III	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN-III	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN-IV	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN-IV	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN-IV	0	Tissue Culture	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
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.