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
ZINGIBERENE	6	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERENE	6	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERENES	0	Rhizome	890.0	17836.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
ZINGIBERENOL	0	Rhizome	not available	100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERENOL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBEROL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBEROL	0	Rhizome	0.0	8000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBEROL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	2900.0	160000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERONE	2	Rhizome	0.3	400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERONE	2	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZONARENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.

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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.