Fresh organically grown ginger (Zingiber officinale): composition and effects on LPS-induced PGE2 production

SD Jolad, RC Lantz, AM Solyom, GJ Chen, RB Bates… - Phytochemistry, 2004 - Elsevier
Gas chromatography in conjunction with mass spectrometry, a technique previously
employed to analyze non-volatile pungent components of ginger extracts modified to
trimethylsilyl derivatives, was applied successfully for the first time to analyze unmodified
partially purified fractions from the dichloromethane extracts of organically grown samples of
fresh Chinese white and Japanese yellow varieties of ginger, Zingiber officinale Roscoe
(Zingiberaceae). This analysis resulted in the detection of 20 hitherto unknown natural …