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
ZINGIBERENE	6	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERENE	6	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERENES	0	Rhizome	890.0	17836.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
ZINGIBERENOL	0	Rhizome	not available	100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERENOL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBEROL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBEROL	0	Rhizome	0.0	8000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBEROL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	2900.0	160000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERONE	2	Rhizome	0.3	400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERONE	2	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZONARENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.

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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
Antileishmanic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antilepric	2	Martindale's 28th
Antilethargic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic	11	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukonychic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukoplakic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene-D4	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antilisteria	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilupus	1	Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphocytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic	5	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Antimaculitic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	5	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimange	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimanic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).