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
6-GINGEROL	28	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-GINGEROL	28	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-GINGEROL	28	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-GINGESULFONIC-ACID	1	Rhizome	not available	13.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHYL-HEPT-5-EN-2-OL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHYL-HEPT-5-EN-2-ONE	0	Rhizome	2.0	50.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
6-METHYL-HEPT-5-EN-2-ONE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHYLGINGEDIACETATE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHYLGINGEDIACETATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
6-METHYLGINGEDIOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-METHYLGINGEDIOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
6-PARADOL	0	Rhizome	not available	9.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-SHOGAOL	32	Rhizome	40.0	330.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
7-(3-4-DIHYDROXY-PHENYL)-1-(4-HYDROXY-3-METHOXY-PHENYL)-HEPT-4-EN-3-ONE	0	Rhizome	not available	1.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
7-GINGEROL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8-BETA-17-EPOXY-LABD-TRANS-12-ENE-15,16-DIAL	1	Rhizome	not available	400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8-GINGEDIOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8-GINGEROL	5	Rhizome	110.0	1069.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8-GINGEROL	5	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8-GINGEROL	5	Root	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
Serotoninergic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Sialogogue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Soap	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sortase-A-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Spasmogenic	5	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Spasmolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Spermicide	3	Martindale's 28th
Spermigenic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Sprout-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Stimulant	2	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Stomachic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Sucrase-Promoter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen	3	Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Suppository	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Surfactant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sweetener	3	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Sympathomimetic	1	HerbalGram No. 17.
Taenicide	1	Martindale's 28th
Teratogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Teratologic	2	Duke, 1992 *