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
ELEMOL	2	Rhizome	3.0	190.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
ELEMOL	2	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	3800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	60000.0	-1.01	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Rhizome	not available	10000.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Root	700.0	30000.0	0.76	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Or	800.0	50000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-ACETATE	6	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.
ETHYL-ACETATE	6	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-ISOPROPYL-SULFIDE	0	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.
ETHYL-ISOPROPYL-SULFIDE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-MYRISTATE	1	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-MYRISTATE	1	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FARNESAL	2	Rhizome	1.0	100.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
FARNESAL	2	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FARNESENE	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FARNESENE	2	Rhizome	245.0	4910.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FARNESOL	17	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FARNESOL	17	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FARNESOL	17	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)

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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
Antialkalotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiallergenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	15	J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran	7	Martindale's 28th
Antialzheimeran?	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiamyloid-Beta	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic	4	Martindale's 29th
Antianginal	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiangiogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antianorectic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antianorexic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antianoxic	1	Yamahara, J., Matsuda, H., Naitoh, Y., Fujimura, H., and Tamai, Y. 1990. Antianoxic Action and Active Constituents of Atractylodis Lanceae Rhizoma. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(7): 2033-2034, 1990.
Antianxiety	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiarabiflavinotic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiarachidonate	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	5	Duke, 1992 *