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
FAT	0	Rhizome	7000.0	77000.0	0.72	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Root	5040.0	72000.0	1.64	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
FIBER	15	Rhizome	9000.0	171000.0	-0.07	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Root	9000.0	171000.0	1.84	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Root	not available	171000.0	1.77	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Root	not available	242000.0	-1.71	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORIDE	3	Rhizome	not available	7.9	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE	0	Rhizome	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE	0	Root	not available	2.0	1.33	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FRUCTOSE	8	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FURANOGERMENONE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURAL	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURAL	6	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GADOLEIC-ACID	0	Rhizome	70.0	380.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GADOLEIC-ACID	0	Root	70.0	380.0	not available	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GALANOLACTONE	4	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALANOLACTONE	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID	22	Rhizome	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
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 *