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
CITRONELLAL	20	Rhizome	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLAL	20	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	2900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL	15	Rhizome	2.0	6500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL	15	Rhizome Essent. Oil	3000.0	130000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL-ACETATE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL-ACETATE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLYL-ACETATE	2	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLYL-ACETATE	2	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Rhizome	0.9	42.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Root	0.3	4.2	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Rhizome	3.0	16.0	1.22	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Root	3.0	16.0	0.47	Duke, 1992 *
CUMENE	1	Rhizome	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUMENE	1	Root	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CURCUMIN	135	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
CURCUMIN	135	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIN	5	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTEINE	13	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTEINE	13	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Rhizome	80.0	462.0	-1.00	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
Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ozone-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-2B1-Inhibitor	6	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	5	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inhibitor	2	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pediculicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Percutaneostimulant	2	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfume	3	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Perfumery	43	Merck 11th Edition
Peristaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	87	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Pheromonal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pheromone	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Photosensitizer	1	Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Phototoxic	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.