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Plant Zingiber officinale (Zingiberaceae)

Common Names
Ginger
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
HEXAN-1-OL 0 Rhizome Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEXANOL 3 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.
HISTIDINE 7 Rhizome 300.0 1738.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE 7 Root 300.0 1738.0 -0.05 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
HUMULENE 2 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE 2 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE-EPOXIDE-1 0 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE-EPOXIDE-2 0 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Rhizome 4.0 162.0 -0.59 Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Root 1.1 15.0 -0.42 Duke, 1992 *
ISOBORNEOL 7 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOBORNEOL 7 Rhizome Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOEUGENOL 16 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOEUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER 0 Rhizome 0.6 40.0 not available Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
ISOEUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER 0 Rhizome Essent. Oil not available 800.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOGINGERENONE-B 2 Rhizome not available 4.7 not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Rhizome 510.0 2926.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Root 510.0 2926.0 -0.28 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOLEUCINE 3 Tuber not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALERALDEHYDE 1 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.
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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