Ginseng, the root of Panax species, is a well-known folk medicine. It has been used as traditional herbal medicine in China, Korea and Japan for thousands of years and today is a popular and worldwide used natural medicine. The active ingredients of ginseng are ginsenosides which are also called ginseng saponins. Recently, there is increasing evidence in the literature on the pharmacological an...

Metabolome analysis was carried out to evaluate the effects of light-emitting diode (LED) spectra on the metabolic processes of ginseng (Panax ginseng C. A. Mayer) adventitious roots. In total, 35 hydrophilic and 11 lipophilic metabolites were identified in ginseng roots irradiated with red (630 nm), blue (465 nm) LED light or fluorescent lamp (FL) light, by gas chromatography–time-offlight mas...

Many patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS; motor neuron disease) use natural or traditional therapies of unproven benefit. One such therapy is ginseng root. However, in some other disease models, ginseng has proven efficacious. Ginseng improves learning and memory in rats, and reduces neuronal death following transient cerebral ischemia. These effects of ginseng have been related to...

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3831/KPI.2015.18.018.].

BACKGROUND Panax ginseng (i.e., ginseng) root is extensively used in traditional oriental medicine. It is a modern pharmaceutical reagent for preventing various human diseases such as cancer. Ginsenosides-the major active components of ginseng-exhibit immunomodulatory effects. However, the mechanism and function underlying such effects are not fully elucidated, especially in human monocytes and...

termed angiogenesis, is a fundamental step in a variety of physiological and pathological conditions including wound healing, embryonic development, chronic inflammation, tumor progression, and metastasis. The process of blood vessel growth can repair tissue damage such as arteriosclerosis, myocardial infarction, and limb ischemia and thus has provided a significant tool for therapeutic neovasc...

Mechanisms for Panax ginseng's cardioprotective effect against ischemia reperfusion injury involve the estrogen-mediated pathway, but little is known about the role of androgen. A standardized Panax ginseng extract (RSE) was orally given with or without flutamide in a left anterior descending coronary artery ligation rat model. Infarct size, CK and LDH activities were measured. Time-related cha...

Panax pseudo-ginseng subsp. pseudo-ginseng has a carrot like root with a small rhizome. It was shown that the saponin composition of roots and rhizomes of this subspecies collected in Tibet and China was extremely poor. From the roots and rhizomes collected in Central Nepal, (specimen-PNct), only a small amount of an oleanolic acid saponin, beta-D-glucopyranosyl-oleanolate (2) was isolated toge...