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
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Root	1620.0	9328.0	-0.50	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLUTELIN	0	Rhizome	2506.0	23091.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTELIN	0	Root	2506.0	23091.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
GLYCINE	12	Rhizome	430.0	2486.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Root	430.0	2486.0	-0.23	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLYCINE	12	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYOXAL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GUAIL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIOL	3	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTADECANOIC-ACID	1	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
HEPTAN-2-OL	0	Rhizome	1.0	135.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-2-OL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	2700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-2-ONE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
HEPTAN-2-ONE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAHYDROCURCUMIN	2	Rhizome	21.3	25.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAHYDROCURCUMIN	2	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAN-1-AL	0	Rhizome	2.0	35.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAN-1-AL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	2.0	700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAN-1-OL	0	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
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.