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
PERILLEN	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PERILLENE	0	Rhizome	1.0	95.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
PERILLENE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	1900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Rhizome	450.0	2455.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Root	450.0	2455.0	-0.39	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHATIDIC-ACID	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
PHOSPHORUS	4	Rhizome	320.0	5323.0	0.46	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Root	181.0	2580.0	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Rhizome	150.0	913.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Root	150.0	913.0	0.02	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PIN-2-EN-5-OL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPECOLIC-ACID	2	Rhizome	not available	320.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Rhizome	2640.0	25079.0	1.35	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Root	1323.0	18900.0	0.23	Duke, 1992 *
PROLAMINE	0	Plant	1540.0	14190.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Rhizome	410.0	2376.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Root	410.0	2376.0	0.28	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROPIONALDEHYDE	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Kameoka, H. and Nakai, K. 1987. Components of essential oil from the root of Glycyrrhiza-glabra. Nippon Gogeikagaku Kaishi 61(9): 1119-1122.
PROPIONALDEHYDE	2	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.