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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
MORETENOL 0 Seed Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-9-FORMYL-HARMAN 0 Root not available 0.1 not available Duke, 1992 *
N-FORMYL-HARMAN 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-NONACOSANE 1 Leaf not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
N-NONACOSANE 1 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-NONACOSANE 1 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-PENTADECANE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-PENTADECANE 0 Root Essent. Oil not available 18000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NEO-INTERMEDEOL 0 Plant not available 10.4 not available Duke, 1992 *
NEOCLOVENE 0 Plant not available not available not available J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
NEOXANTHIN 2 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NEROLIDOL 11 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NERVONIC-ACID 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN 39 Root 17.0 80.0 0.86 Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINAMIDE 2 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINIC-ACID 11 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NORHARMAN 2 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NOTOGINSENOSIDE-R-1 0 Root not available 20.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
O-ALPHA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL...FRUCTOFURANOSIDE 0 Root not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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.