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Plant 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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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
PANAXYNE 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAXYNE-EPOXIDE 0 Root 1.8 9.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAXYNOL 3 Root not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
PANAXYNOL-LINOLEATE 0 Root not available 1.3 not available Duke, 1992 *
PANAXYTRIOL 1 Root 14.2 250.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Root not available 6.6 -1.57 Duke, 1992 *
PATCHOULENE 2 Root Essent. Oil not available 20000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN 24 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN 24 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PELARGONIDIN-3-MONOGLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit Epidermis not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PENTADECANOIC-ACID 1 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PERLARGONIDIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PERLOLYRINE 0 Root not available 1.6 not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENOLASE 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENYL-ACETALDEHYDE 2 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLETHANOL 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHEOPHYTIN 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDIC-ACID 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
Anticephalagic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticerebrotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiCFS 3 Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antichoreic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticlastogen 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticlaudificant? 1 Martindale's 29th
Anticlimacteric 4 Duke, 1992 *
Anticoagulant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Anticoeliac 1 Martindale's 28th
Anticold 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticolic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Anticomplement 1 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Anticonvulsant 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticorneotic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticoronary 6 Duke, 1992 *