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

Common Names

Ginger

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

Download these results as:

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
GINGEDIACETATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
GINGERENONE-A	3	Rhizome	118.0	136.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGERENONE-B	2	Rhizome	not available	4.7	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGERENONE-C	2	Rhizome	not available	14.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGERGLYCOLIPID-A	0	Rhizome	not available	13.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGERGLYCOLIPID-B	0	Rhizome	14.0	15.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGERGLYCOLIPID-C	0	Rhizome	not available	14.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGEROL	27	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGEROL	27	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGEROL	27	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGEROL-METHYL-ETHER	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGEROLS	0	Rhizome	not available	13200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGERONE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGERONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLANOLACTONE	0	Rhizome	not available	120.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLOBULIN	0	Rhizome	2366.0	21801.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLOBULIN	0	Root	2366.0	21801.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
GLUCOSE	7	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	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.
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Rhizome	1620.0	9328.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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.