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
CYCLOEUCALENOL	3	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTEINE	13	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-FRUCTOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
D-GLUCOSE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
D-SUCROSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAMMARAN-3-BETA-6-ALPHA-12-BETA-20(R)-25-PENTAOL	0	Shoot	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAMMARAN-3-BETA-6-ALPHA-12-BETA-20(R)-25-PENTAOL-6-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOPYRANOSYL(1-2)-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTERINE	0	Leaf	not available	3.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTERINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTEROL	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTEROL	5	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTEROL	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTEROL	5	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2,TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DENDROLASIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DENSICHINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticalculic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	12	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	2	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	7	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	8	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.