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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-NEOCLOVENE 0 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
BETA-NEOCLOVENE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
BETA-PANASINSENE 0 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
BETA-PANASINSENE 0 Root 10.2 *
BETA-PATCHOULENE 0 Root *
BETA-PATCHOULENE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
BETA-SANTALENE 2 Flower Essent. Oil *
BETA-SELINENE 3 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
BETA-SELINENE 3 Root Essent. Oil 80000.0 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Rhizome *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Root *
BETA-SITOSTEROL-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
BETA-SITOSTERYL-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant *
BICYCLO-(2.1.0)-PENTANE-5-CARBOXYLIC-ACID-1-METHYL-ETHYL-ESTER 0 Shoot *
BICYCLOGERMACRENE 0 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
BICYCLOGERMACRENE 0 Root *
BIOTIN 4 Root 0.9 *
BISABOLENE 0 Flower Essent. Oil *
BUTYROSPERMOL 0 Seed Oil *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Trichomonistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Triglycerigenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Trypanocide 1 *
Trypsin-Enhancer 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumor-Promoter 1 *
Tumorigenic 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 4 *
Ubiquiot 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 5 HerbalGram No. 20, page 9.
Uricogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Uricosuric 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant 1 Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier 1 Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative 1 Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Uterotonic 1 *
Uterotrophic 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Varroacide 1 *
Vasodilator 16 *