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
FAT	0	Rhizome	7000.0	77000.0	0.72	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Root	5040.0	72000.0	1.64	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
FIBER	15	Rhizome	9000.0	171000.0	-0.07	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Root	9000.0	171000.0	1.84	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Root	not available	171000.0	1.77	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Root	not available	242000.0	-1.71	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORIDE	3	Rhizome	not available	7.9	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE	0	Rhizome	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE	0	Root	not available	2.0	1.33	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FRUCTOSE	8	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FURANOGERMENONE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURAL	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURAL	6	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GADOLEIC-ACID	0	Rhizome	70.0	380.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GADOLEIC-ACID	0	Root	70.0	380.0	not available	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GALANOLACTONE	4	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALANOLACTONE	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID	22	Rhizome	not available	not available	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
Hemostatic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	17	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	14	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Herbistat	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	2	Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hyperglycemic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypnotic	3	Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic	19	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.