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
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.