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
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
VANILLIN	28	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
VIT-B-6	0	Rhizome	1.6	8.7	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Root	1.6	8.7	-0.26	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
WATER	0	Rhizome	93090.0	930000.0	0.95	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Root	not available	930000.0	1.05	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHORRHIZOL	0	Rhizome	1.0	50.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
XANTHORRHIZOL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZERUMBODIENONE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Rhizome	not available	57.0	-0.19	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGERBERONE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGERONE	13	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGERONE	13	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGERONE	13	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGERONE	13	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBAIN	1	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBAIN	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Abstract (See species file)
ZINGIBERENE	6	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERENE	6	Rhizome	0.5	600.0	-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
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	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	2	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	5	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Prostatitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protease-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *