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
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
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.