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
NONAN-2-OL	0	Rhizome	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-2-OL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-2-ONE	0	Rhizome	8.0	160.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-2-ONE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	3200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONANAL	0	Rhizome	2.0	50.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
NONANAL	0	Root	2.0	50.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONYL-ALDEHYDE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONYL-ALDEHYDE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCT-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-1-AL	0	Rhizome	2.0	40.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-1-AL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-1-OL-ACETATE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-2-OL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Rhizome	1190.0	11000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Root	1190.0	11000.0	3.06	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
OXALIC-ACID	9	Rhizome	not available	5000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Root	not available	5000.0	2.54	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Rhizome	not available	19.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMEN-8-OL	0	Rhizome	0.5	35.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
P-CYMEN-8-OL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	700.0	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.