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

Common Names
Ginger
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SODIUM 1 Rhizome 60.0 709.0 0.19 *
SODIUM 1 Root 30.0 423.0 -0.32 *
STARCH 5 Rhizome 123000.0 500000.0 0.42 *
STARCH 5 Root 35000.0 600000.0 1.19 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Rhizome 170.0 1540.0 1.00 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Root 170.0 1540.0 2.81 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STIGMASTEROL 12 Root 40.0 200.0 0.33 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
SUCROSE 14 Rhizome *
SUCROSE 14 Root ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SUGARS 0 Root 5600.0 80000.0 -0.23 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Rhizome *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Rhizome Essent. Oil *
TERPINOLENE 9 Rhizome 1.0 90.0 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
TERPINOLENE 9 Rhizome Essent. Oil 1800.0 *
TERT-BUTANOL 0 Essential Oil Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
THIAMIN 31 Rhizome 0.0 3.0 -0.98 *
THIAMIN 31 Root 0.0 3.0 -0.33 *
THIAMINE 0 Root 0.1 1.5 -0.56 *
THREONINE 4 Rhizome 360.0 2057.0 -1.00 *
THREONINE 4 Root 360.0 2057.0 -0.49 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antirhinoviral 4 Denyer, C.V., Jackson, P., Loakes, D.M., Ellis, M.R., and Yound, D.A.B. Isolation of Antirhinoviral Sesquiterpenes From Ginger (Zingiber officinale). Journal of Natural Products, 57(5): 658-662, 1994.
Antisalmonella 5 *
Antischistosomiac 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antisclerodermic 1 *
Antiscoliotic 1 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antiseborrheic 1 *
Antiseptic 34 Merck 11th Edition
Antiseratogenic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiserotonin 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antishock 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antisickling 6 Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antisinusitic 1 *
Antispare-Tire 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antispasmodic 32 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antisprue 1 *