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
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID	22	Root	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
GAMMA-BISABOLENE	2	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-EUDESMOL	0	Rhizome	2.0	115.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
GAMMA-EUDESMOL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	2300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-MUUROLENE	0	Rhizome	7.0	455.0	1.00	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
GAMMA-MUUROLENE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	9100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-SELINENE	0	Rhizome	35.0	700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-SELINENE	0	Root	35.0	700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Rhizome	not available	1230.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIAL	13	Rhizome	not available	980.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIAL	13	Rhizome Essent. Oil	159000.0	400000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Rhizome	2.0	345.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	6900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL-ACETATE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL-ACETATE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETATE	5	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETATE	5	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMANIUM	0	Rhizome	87.0	169.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGEDIACETATE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiulcer	32	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiuremic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiuricosuric	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaricose	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	24	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antivitiligic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiyeast	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	8	Merck 11th Edition
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphrodisiac	2	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Apifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic	11	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.