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-RG-1	13	Leaf	5.0	72200.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-1	13	Rhizome	3800.0	4500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-1	13	Root	320.0	58400.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-1	13	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-1	13	Shoot	not available	15000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-1	13	Stem	not available	2920.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-1	13	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-1	13	Pt	1000.0	3270.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-2	3	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-2	3	Leaf	67.0	317.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-2	3	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-2	3	Root	100.0	26700.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-2	3	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-3	2	Leaf	25.0	195.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-3	2	Root	3.0	30.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-3	2	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RG-4	0	Leaf	0.2	4.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RH	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RH	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINSENOSIDE-RH-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
Antigargantitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastritic	4	Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antigliomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglossitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglutamaergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranulocytopenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihalitosic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihelicobacter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	1	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.