Abstract Among the species of Zingiberaceae family, ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is best known and studied species, with several reported ornamental, medicinal, culinary properties. Many ornamental genus Zingiber are commonly treated as gingers by analogy. This study provides a list Zingiber, information on synonyms comments aspects.

Supercritical fluid carbon dioxide extraction technology was developed to gain the active components from a Taiwan native plant, Zingiber officinale (ginger). We studied the biological effects of ginger extracts via multiple assays and demonstrated the biofunctions in each platform. Investigations of ginger extracts indicated antioxidative properties in dose-dependant manners on radical scaveng...

BACKGROUND Trichomoniasis is the most common sexually transmitted protozoan diseases in the worldwide. Metronidazole is the choice drug for trichomoniasis treatment, however, metronidazole resistant Trichomonas vaginalis (T.vaginalis) has been reported. Natural products are the source of most new drugs, and Zingiber officinale (Ginger) is widely used ingredient in the traditional medicine. OB...

BACKGROUND Streptococcus mutans, Candida albicans, and Enterococcus faecalis are the three oral microorganisms most commonly implicated in the causation of oral infections. All these oral microorganisms have shown resistant to routinely used antimicrobials. There is a need for an antimicrobial agent which is effective, safe, and economical. Zingiber officinale, commonly known as ginger is one s...

PURPOSE Diabetic retinopathy is a common microvascular complication of long-standing diabetes. Several complex interconnecting biochemical pathways are activated in response to hyperglycemia. These pathways culminate into proinflammatory and angiogenic effects that bring about structural and functional damage to the retinal vasculature. Since Zingiber officinale (ginger) is known for its anti-i...

Antimicrobial properties of phytochemicals extracted from onion (Allium cepa) and ginger (Zingiber officinale) were evaluated against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus, two common food borne pathogens. They were tested using minimum inhibitory concentration, minimum bactericidal concentration disc diffusion and agar wells diffusion. Onion showed good antimicrobial properties against S....

In this study, 36 extracts derived from 29 plant species selected using an ethnobotanical approach were tested for antifungal activity against a taxonomically diverse group of 13 human pathogenic fungi. We compared the inhibitory characteristics of these plant extracts with those of the commonly used antifungals, amphotericin B and ketoconazole, and the plant-derived antifungal, berberine. Seve...

This study was conducted to determine effects of dietary administration of different levels of ginger (Zingiber officinale) extract on digestive enzymes activity and liver composition of Mesopotamichthys sharpeyi during eight weeks. In this respect, 192 M. sharpeyi fingerlings (with initial weight 11.67 ± 0.32 g) were divided into three ginger extract (0.1%, 0.5%, 1%) treatment group...

Since the early work of Kihlman and Levan (1949) which demonstrated that caffeine induces chromosomal alterations in plants, other reports are available to show that food additives, edible fats, insecticides etc. could be mutagenic (Sax and Sax 1968, Hollaender 1971, Kihlman et al. 1974). The present work was under taken to study the mutagenic effects, if any of ginger and turmeric which have b...

Problem statement: Cognitive impairment is one important problem in post-menopausal women. Although hormone therapy can improve this condition, it also produces adverse effect. Recent findings showed that this condition could be mitigated by the herb. Ginger or Zingiber officinale Roscoe, a plant in a family of Zingiberaceae, was previously demonstrated the neuroprotection and cognitive enhanci...