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Common Names
Chinese Ginseng; Oriental Ginseng; Ginseng; Korean Ginseng
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUCROSE | 14 | Stem | not available | 3500.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SUGARS | 0 | Root | 19080.0 | 90000.0 | -0.13 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SUPEROXIDE-DISMUTASE | 5 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TANNIC-ACID | 41 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TARTARIC-ACID | 6 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TERPINEOL | 18 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp. |
| TERPINEOL | 18 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| THIAMIN | 31 | Root | not available | 1.7 | -0.44 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| THIAMINE | 0 | Root | 0.4 | 1.7 | -0.52 | Duke, 1992 * |
| THREONINE | 4 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| THREONINE | 4 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| THUJ-4(10)-ENE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TIN | 4 | Root | 3.4 | 16.0 | -0.05 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TOLUENE | 1 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRACE-ELEMENTS | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRANS-BETA-FARNESENE | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRANS-BETA-FARNESENE | 2 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | 80000.0 | 0.95 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRANS-CARYOPHYLLENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRANS-CARYOPHYLLENE | 0 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRICOSANOIC-ACID | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Teratologic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Termiticide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Termitifuge | 2 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
| Testosterone-Inducer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Testosteronigenic | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Thermogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Thymoprotective | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Thyrotropic | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Tineacide | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| TNF-alpha-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tonic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TOPO-2-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor | 3 | Funayama, Y., Nishio, K., Kabayashi, K., Nagao, M., Shimoi, K., Ohira, T., Hasegawa, S., Saijo, N. 1996. Effects of Beta- and Gamma-carboline Derivatives on DNA Topoisomerase Activities. Mutat Research, 249: 183-191. |
| Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor | 1 | Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225. |
| Tranquilizer | 6 | Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90. |
| Transdermal | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tremorigenic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tremorilytic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Tremorogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Trichomonicide | 4 | Martindale's 29th |