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
MYRICETIN	34	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Rhizome	180.0	1650.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Root	180.0	1650.0	1.73	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MYRTENAL	5	Rhizome	0.5	30.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
MYRTENAL	5	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-BUTYRALDEHYDE	1	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.
N-BUTYRALDEHYDE	1	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-DECANAL	1	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.
N-HEPTANE	1	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONANE	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.
N-NONANE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONANOL	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.
N-NONANOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONANONE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONANONE	0	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTANE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTANE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTANE	0	Rhizome Essent. 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.
N-OCTANOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-PROPANOL	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.

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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.