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Common Names
Ginger
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELEMOL | 2 | Rhizome | 3.0 | 190.0 | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| ELEMOL | 2 | Rhizome Essent. Oil | not available | 3800.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EO | 0 | Resin, Exudate, Sap | not available | 60000.0 | -1.01 | Duke, 1992 * |
| EO | 0 | Rhizome | not available | 10000.0 | -0.53 | Duke, 1992 * |
| EO | 0 | Root | 700.0 | 30000.0 | 0.76 | Duke, 1992 * |
| EO | 0 | Or | 800.0 | 50000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ETHYL-ACETATE | 6 | 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. |
| ETHYL-ACETATE | 6 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ETHYL-ISOPROPYL-SULFIDE | 0 | 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. |
| ETHYL-ISOPROPYL-SULFIDE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ETHYL-MYRISTATE | 1 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ETHYL-MYRISTATE | 1 | Rhizome Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EUGENOL | 76 | Rhizome Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FARNESAL | 2 | Rhizome | 1.0 | 100.0 | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| FARNESAL | 2 | Rhizome Essent. Oil | not available | 2000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FARNESENE | 2 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FARNESENE | 2 | Rhizome | 245.0 | 4910.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FARNESOL | 17 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FARNESOL | 17 | Rhizome Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FARNESOL | 17 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books) |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiarteriosclerotic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiarthritic | 12 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiasthmatic | 10 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiataxic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antiatherogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiatherosclerotic | 9 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antibacillary | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antibackache | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antibacterial | 43 | Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994. |
| Antiberiberi | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antibiotic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| AntiBPH | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antibronchitic | 3 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Anticancer | 11 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticancer (Breast) | 2 | Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103. |
| Anticancer (Cervix) | 2 | Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987. |
| Anticancer (Colon) | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticancer (Duodenum) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticancer (Forestomach) | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticancer (Liver) | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |