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
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)

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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.