Plant Zingiber officinale (Zingiberaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Ginger

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
6-GINGEROL	28	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-GINGEROL	28	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-GINGEROL	28	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-GINGESULFONIC-ACID	1	Rhizome	not available	13.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHYL-HEPT-5-EN-2-OL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHYL-HEPT-5-EN-2-ONE	0	Rhizome	2.0	50.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
6-METHYL-HEPT-5-EN-2-ONE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHYLGINGEDIACETATE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHYLGINGEDIACETATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
6-METHYLGINGEDIOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHYLGINGEDIOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
6-PARADOL	0	Rhizome	not available	9.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-SHOGAOL	32	Rhizome	40.0	330.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
7-(3-4-DIHYDROXY-PHENYL)-1-(4-HYDROXY-3-METHOXY-PHENYL)-HEPT-4-EN-3-ONE	0	Rhizome	not available	1.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
7-GINGEROL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8-BETA-17-EPOXY-LABD-TRANS-12-ENE-15,16-DIAL	1	Rhizome	not available	400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8-GINGEDIOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8-GINGEROL	5	Rhizome	110.0	1069.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8-GINGEROL	5	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8-GINGEROL	5	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
(-)-Chronotropic	3	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.
(-)-Inotropic	3	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.
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
12-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	7	Duke, 1992 *
5-HETE-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	6	Duke, 1992 *
8-HETE-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	2	Duke, 1992 *
Absorbent	1	Martindale's 29th
Acaricide	10	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AChE-Inhibitor	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Acidulant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Addictive	1	Science News, 145: 294.
Adjuvant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Adrenergic	1	Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
Aggregant	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *