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
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
VANILLIN	28	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
VIT-B-6	0	Rhizome	1.6	8.7	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Root	1.6	8.7	-0.26	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
WATER	0	Rhizome	93090.0	930000.0	0.95	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Root	not available	930000.0	1.05	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHORRHIZOL	0	Rhizome	1.0	50.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
XANTHORRHIZOL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZERUMBODIENONE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Rhizome	not available	57.0	-0.19	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGERBERONE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGERONE	13	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGERONE	13	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGERONE	13	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGERONE	13	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBAIN	1	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBAIN	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Abstract (See species file)
ZINGIBERENE	6	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERENE	6	Rhizome	0.5	600.0	-1.00	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.