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
GINSENOSIDE-RB-2	8	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RB-2-C	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RB-3	2	Flower	not available	136.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RB-3	2	Root	not available	50.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RB-C	0	Root	not available	14000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RB-C	0	Root Bark	not available	24000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RB-GROUP	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RB-GROUP	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RC	6	Embryo	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RC	6	Flower	672.0	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RC	6	Fruit	1000.0	36700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RC	6	Leaf	3.5	37700.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RC	6	Rhizome	not available	4700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RC	6	Root	500.0	25000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RC	6	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RC	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RC	6	Shoot	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RC	6	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RC	6	Pt	not available	1900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RC-2	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
Rubefacient	1	Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Sclerosant	1	Martindale's 29th
Secretomotor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	16	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Sequestrant	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Serotoninergic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Sialogogue	1	Martindale's 29th
Soap	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spasmogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Spermicide	2	Martindale's 28th
Spermigenic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Stimulant	1	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Stomachic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen	3	Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Suppository	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Surfactant	1	Schulz, V, Hansel, R and Tyler, VE. 1998. Rational Phytotherapy - A Physician's Guide to Herbal Medicine. 3rd ed. 1st English Edition. Translated by Terry C. Telger. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. 306 pp.
Sweetener	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Taenicide	1	Martindale's 28th
Teratogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *