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Plant Zingiber officinale (Zingiberaceae)

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
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
Insecticide 9 Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge 30 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge? 1 Martindale's 28th
Insectiphile 4 Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Insulin-Sparing 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist 1 Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 27 Duke, 1992 *
Irritant? 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
JNK-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional 5 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Larvicide 5 Duke, 1992 *
Larvistat 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 7 Duke, 1992 *