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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Zingiber officinale (Zingiberaceae)

Common Names
Ginger
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
HEXAN-1-OL 0 Rhizome Essent. Oil *
HEXANOL 3 Rhizome 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 *
HISTIDINE 7 Root 300.0 1738.0 -0.05 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
HUMULENE 2 Rhizome *
HUMULENE 2 Root *
HUMULENE-EPOXIDE-1 0 Rhizome *
HUMULENE-EPOXIDE-2 0 Rhizome *
IRON 6 Rhizome 4.0 162.0 -0.59 *
IRON 6 Root 1.1 15.0 -0.42 *
ISOBORNEOL 7 Rhizome *
ISOBORNEOL 7 Rhizome Essent. Oil *
ISOEUGENOL 16 Rhizome *
ISOEUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER 0 Rhizome 0.6 40.0 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 800.0 *
ISOGINGERENONE-B 2 Rhizome 4.7 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Rhizome 510.0 2926.0 1.00 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Root 510.0 2926.0 -0.28 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOLEUCINE 3 Tuber *
ISOVALERALDEHYDE 1 Essential Oil 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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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Phytoalexin 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Pigment 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 *
Plasmodicide 2 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 *
Poultice 1 Martindale's 29th
Preservative 2 Merck 11th Edition
Pressor 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Progesteronigenic 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Prolactinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Proliferant 1 *
Prooxidant 5 *
Propecic 5 *
Prostaglandigenic 4 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer 1 Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 9 *
Prostatitigenic 1 *
Protease-Inhibitor 1 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 3 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protein-Kinase-Inhibitor 1 *