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
PERILLEN	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PERILLENE	0	Rhizome	1.0	95.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
PERILLENE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	1900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Rhizome	450.0	2455.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Root	450.0	2455.0	-0.39	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHATIDIC-ACID	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
PHOSPHORUS	4	Rhizome	320.0	5323.0	0.46	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Root	181.0	2580.0	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Rhizome	150.0	913.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Root	150.0	913.0	0.02	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PIN-2-EN-5-OL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPECOLIC-ACID	2	Rhizome	not available	320.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Rhizome	2640.0	25079.0	1.35	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Root	1323.0	18900.0	0.23	Duke, 1992 *
PROLAMINE	0	Plant	1540.0	14190.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Rhizome	410.0	2376.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Root	410.0	2376.0	0.28	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROPIONALDEHYDE	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Kameoka, H. and Nakai, K. 1987. Components of essential oil from the root of Glycyrrhiza-glabra. Nippon Gogeikagaku Kaishi 61(9): 1119-1122.
PROPIONALDEHYDE	2	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
Chemopreventive	9	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	8	J. Drug. Dev. (Vol. 6=1993) e.g. Mustafa, T., Srivastava, K.C., and Jensen, K.B. 1993. Drug Development Report (9): Pharmacology of Ginger, Zingiber officinale. J. Drug. Dev. 6(1): 25-39.
Choleretic	14	Duke, 1992 *
Cholesterolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cholinergic	1	Martindale's 28th
Cicatrizant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Circulotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Clastogenic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Active	2	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
CNS-Depressant	6	HerbalGram No. 17.
CNS-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Paralytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Stimulant	5	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Toxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Co-carcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cold-preventive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Coleoptophile	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collagen-Sparing	2	Duke, 1992 *
Collagenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Collyrium	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.