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
CAPSAICIN	44	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
CAPSAICIN	44	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAR-3-ENE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAR-3-ENE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Rhizome	92000.0	823240.0	0.68	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Root	47390.0	677000.0	-1.96	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEDOROL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEDOROL	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHAVICOL	3	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHAVICOL	3	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
CHROMIUM	24	Rhizome	6.0	20.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Root	not available	0.6	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSANTHEMIN	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINEOLE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
CIS-1-2-BIS-(TRANS-3-4-DIMETHOXY-STYRYL)-CYCLOBUTANE	0	Rhizome	not available	13.9	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-10-SHOGAOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-10-SHOGOAL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-12-SHOGAOL	0	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
Vibriocide	2	Wealth of India.
Vulnerary	7	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 1772.