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Chinese "King of Herbs" - Ginseng

Ginseng is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with high medicinal value and has a long history in the application of clinical medicine in China. 

What is Ginseng extract

Ginseng (Panax ginseng C. A. Mey), a perennial herbaceous plant in the Araliaceae family, is called "ginseng" in China because of its roots are hypertrophied and often bifurcated, which like a human head and limbs. Also known as Korean ginseng, Asian ginseng and Chinese ginseng, The plant genus Panax means "to cure all diseases" in Greek. It has the same origin as "Panacea". Ginseng is one of the important components of traditional Chinses medicinal materials, the medicinal parts are roots and rhizomes.

Ginseng is mainly grown in Northeast China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and eastern Russia because its leaves lack stomata and palisade tissue, which can't retain water and will burn the leaves when the temperature is higher than 32 degrees. Ginseng usually takes 3 years to blossom, 5-6 years to bear fruit, and 5-6 years to harvest ginseng roots. The chemical composition of ginseng is relatively complex, rich in active substances, including ginsenosides, volatile oils, ginseng polysaccharides, flavonoids, fatty acids, vitamins, proteins, sterols, lignin and trace elements. The iconic component in ginseng is ginsenoside, and its content is about 4%.

Ginseng extract refers to the powdered product obtained after a series of processing of  extracting, concentrating, refining, drying, crushing, and sieving the ginseng root, which takes ginsenoside as the active ingredient. It can be processed into finished products and applied to food, health care products, cosmetics, daily necessities and other industries.
 

Different Types of Ginseng

According to the growth environment classification: wild ginseng, mountain cultivated ginseng, transplanted wild ginseng and cultivated ginseng.

The Benefits of Ginseng

Modern pharmacological studies have shown that ginsenosides have the following effects.
Central nervous system: According to the functional state of the nervous system, the size of the dose and the different ginseng components of the selected, ginseng has a two-way effect on the central nervous system. For example, ginsenoside Rg1 can protect rat cerebral cortical nerve cells and dopaminergic neurons, and ginsenoside Rb2 and Rg1 have obvious anti-ischemic effects on nerve cells.
 

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