What is the differenciation between Panax ginseng and Ginsengs,How to use Panax Ginseng,Chemistry and Pharmacology,Substitutes?
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- .Botanical Identification and Info of Panax Ginseng.
- .Difference between Ginsengs.
- .Plant Description of Ginseng.
- .Overview and tells of Panax ginseng.
- .Panax ginseng Asian ginseng root.
- .Constituents and Phytochemicals of Panax Ginseng.
- .Uses of Panax Ginseng.
- .Therapeutics and Pharmacology of Panax Ginseng.
- .Substitutes of Panax Ginseng.
- .How to use Panax Ginseng: dosage,administration,precautions and combinations.
- .The Ginseng Trade War.
- .Research Update:Panax ginseng and Ginsenoside
Plant Description of Ginseng.
The Asian ginseng grows to about 0.8 m by 0.7 m, while the American ginseng is smaller, and grows to about 0.3 m by 0.5 m at a slow rate. The ginseng plant requires 5-7 years to mature from seed. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs). The plant can grow in full shade (deep woodland) or semi-shade (light woodland). It requires moist soil.
The ginseng plant has leaves that grow in a circle around a straight stem. Yellowish-green umbrella-shaped flowers grow in the center and produce red berries. Wrinkles around the neck of the root tell how old the plant is. This is important because ginseng is not ready for use until it has grown for four to six years.
Ginseng root consists of the dried main and lateral root and root hairs of P. ginseng C.A. Meyer [Fam. Araliaceae] and their preparations in effective dosage. The root contains at least 1.5% ginsenosides, calculated as ginsenoside Rg1.
Panax is a perennial plant indigenous to the mountainous forests of the northern temperate zone of Eastern Asia and is cultivated in China and Korea. It has a thick, spindle-like brown-yellow root, often divided at the end. The simple glabrous stem bears a whorl of three or five palmately compound leaves consisting of five oblong-ovate, finely double-serrate leaflets. From June to August it is topped with a single umbel of greenish-yellow flowers. The fruit is a small edible drupe-like pale red berry. The activity of young cultivated roots is said to be up to half that of old roots grown in the wild. Commercially produced Panax is either grown as undergrowth in shady forests, or shaded by mats in the open. Two forms are available, - 'white' Ginseng (often with the outer skin peeled off) and 'red' ginseng, prepared by steaming the root before drying. Red ginseng contains all the saponins so far isolated from white ginseng, and others which are probably formed during the steaming process.
Ginseng has a sweetly aromatic flavour. The ginseng root has long been used as a valued tonic herb in China, called "root of heaven." The Chinese regard ginseng as a panacea for illness, though it was usually used in a preventive rather than a curative manner.
In China, ginseng is mainly produced in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei and other provinces. Wild ginseng is called mountain ginseng, while cultivated ginseng is known as garden ginseng.
In general, 6-7 years after its cultivation, the herb is dug out in mid-September. Fresh ginseng should be cleaned and dried. Raw ginseng dried in the sun is called sun-dried raw ginseng; ginseng steamed and dried in the sun of roasted is called red ginseng; and ginseng boiled, soaked in syrup and dried is known as sugar-processed ginseng or white ginseng.
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