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
FAT	0	Rhizome	7000.0	77000.0	0.72	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Root	5040.0	72000.0	1.64	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
FIBER	15	Rhizome	9000.0	171000.0	-0.07	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Root	9000.0	171000.0	1.84	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Root	not available	171000.0	1.77	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Root	not available	242000.0	-1.71	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORIDE	3	Rhizome	not available	7.9	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE	0	Rhizome	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE	0	Root	not available	2.0	1.33	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FRUCTOSE	8	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FURANOGERMENONE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURAL	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURAL	6	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GADOLEIC-ACID	0	Rhizome	70.0	380.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GADOLEIC-ACID	0	Root	70.0	380.0	not available	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GALANOLACTONE	4	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALANOLACTONE	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID	22	Rhizome	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
Antigastric	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastritic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antigliomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglossitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglutamaergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	3	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	3	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihalitosic	1	American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihangover	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihelicobacter	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	2	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.