Zingiber officinale
Ginger
- Zingiberene / sesquiphellandrene type
Ginger is distilled from dried rhizome, and the resulting oil is 32% zingiberene — a sesquiterpene, not the gingerol that makes fresh ginger hot.…
By family
Zingiberaceae
2 published monographs fall under this facet. A facet here is not a taxonomy label but a safety clue: plants in the same family often share cross-reactivity risk, and the same botanical part often shares extraction and oxidation behaviour.
Monographs in this facet
Elettaria cardamomum
Cardamom
- 1,8-Cineole / terpinyl acetate type
Cardamom oil is roughly a third 1,8-cineole and a third terpinyl acetate, which makes it a warm spice with a cool top note — and it puts it…