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
10-GINGERDIONE	2	Rhizome	not available	11.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-GINGERDIONE	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-GINGEROL	3	Rhizome	2.6	1862.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-GINGEROL	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-SHOGAOL	0	Rhizome	not available	74.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
10-SHOGOAL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
12-GINGEDIOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
12-GINGEROL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
14-GINGEROL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
16-GINGEROL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2(R)-5(S)-DIHYDROXY-1-7-BIS-(4-HYDROXY-3-METHOXY-PHENYL)-HEPTANE	0	Rhizome	not available	5.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,2,4-TRIMETHYL-HEPTANE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,2,4-TRIMETHYL-HEPTANE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-(2'-3'-EPOXY-3-METHYL-BUTYL)-3-METHYL-FURAN	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-(3'-METHYL-2'-BUTENYL)-3-METHYL-FURAN	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-6-DIMETHYL-HEPT-5-EN-1-AL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-6-DIMETHYL-OCTA-2-6-DIENE-1-8-DIOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-6-DIMETHYL-OCTA-3-7-DIENE-1-6-DIOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3(R)-5(S)-DIACETOXY-1-(3-4-DIMETHOXY-PHENYL)-DECANE	0	Rhizome	not available	14.9	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3(R)-5(S)-DIACETOXY-1-(4-HYDROXY-3-METHOXY-PHENYL)-DECANE	0	Rhizome	not available	41.8	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
Degranulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Deliriant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Demulcent	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dentifrice	1	Martindale's 29th
Deodorant	3	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Depressant	2	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Depressor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dermal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	3	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Digestive	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Diuretic	14	Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	1	Merck 11th Edition