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
GINGEDIACETATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
GINGERENONE-A	3	Rhizome	118.0	136.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGERENONE-B	2	Rhizome	not available	4.7	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGERENONE-C	2	Rhizome	not available	14.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGERGLYCOLIPID-A	0	Rhizome	not available	13.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGERGLYCOLIPID-B	0	Rhizome	14.0	15.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGERGLYCOLIPID-C	0	Rhizome	not available	14.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGEROL	27	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGEROL	27	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGEROL	27	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGEROL-METHYL-ETHER	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGEROLS	0	Rhizome	not available	13200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGERONE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GINGERONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLANOLACTONE	0	Rhizome	not available	120.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLOBULIN	0	Rhizome	2366.0	21801.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLOBULIN	0	Root	2366.0	21801.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
GLUCOSE	7	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	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.
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Rhizome	1620.0	9328.0	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
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 *