KOREAN GINSENG (panax ginseng meyer)

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	KOREAN GINSENG
	*panax ginseng meyer*

Name
KOREAN GINSENG

Scientific Name
panax ginseng meyer

KOREAN GINSENG

The root of ginseng has been coming uti uninterruptedly lizando by its properties tonifican tes for more than 4,000 years in China. It was introduced in Europe as of century XVIII, and has been object of nume rosos scientific studies by his extraor dinarias virtues. Its scientific name, Panax, come from the Greek roots bread (everything) axos (treatment). For the Chinese, ginseng is an authentic panacea, able of cu to rar a great variety of affections. Their afrodisíacos effects have given a great popularity him in the western countries, in which stress, and the use of the tobacco, the alcohol and other drugs, the sexual power constitutes an aggression with tra.

Several types of ginseng exist, in addition to the Korean: ginseng Chinese (Panax repens Max.) that it is cultivated in China and Indochina; ginseng American (Panax quinguefolium L.) that he is original of the northeast of the United States and Southeastern of Canada, growing up wild in hayedos and robledales; eleuterococo (Eleutherococcus senticosus Maxim.), also called ginseng Russian or Siberian and that is cultivated with medicinal aims, and presents/displays properties very similar to those of ginseng Korean.

Habitat: original of mountainous zones and you cold of Korea, China and Japan, where it is cultivated widely.

Description: it plants of the family of the Araliáceas that reaches from 20 to 50 cms. of height. The leaves are arranged in groups of five. The flowers are of color purple, and give rise to small fruits in berry. Its root is fleshy, of grayish or white color; it measures of 10 to 15 cm and weight 200 grams like average.

Used parts: the root as of the fifth year.

Properties and indications: the active principles by the root of ginseng are of a great chemical complexity, so much, that until it has not been possible now to synthesize them. The flame ginsenósidos, and chemically is glucósidos esteroideos of the triterpénicas saponinas. To them they must its therapeutic actions fundamentally, that they are harnessed by the component rest: minerals and oligoelementos, between which they emphasize sulfur, germanium, manganese, magnesium, calcium and zinc; vitamins B1, B2, B6, biotina and pantoténico acid; fitosteroles; enzymes; as well as other substances.

The effects of ginseng on the organism very are varied:

Tonificante: the ginsenósidos ones increase to the physical yield and the fatigue strenght. This not must to an exciting effect, as it happens with the cocaine, the coffee, the tea or other drugs, but to one it improves in the metabolic processes. Ginseng accelerates the enzymatic processes of the glucogénesis (production of glycogen in the liver from the glucose) and of the glucogenolisis (glucose production from the accumulated glycogen; it diminishes the lactic acid concentration in the muscle, cause of the stiffnesses, thanks to the best advantage of the glucose; it increases the production of ATP (adenosín triphosphate), substance of great power capacity for the cells; it improves the use of oxygen by the cells; it increases the synthesis of proteins (anabolizante effect); it stimulates the hematopoyesis (blood production) in the bony marrow, specially after hemorrhages. All these biochemical effects have been verified experimentally. So ginseng tonifica without exciting and creating dependency, because it increases the production of energy in the cells.

Nervous system: it has antidepressing and ansiolíticos effects (it eliminates the anxiety). It favors the mental activity, increasing the memory and concentration capacity.

Endocrino system: it has an action antistress due to his quality of "adaptógeno", because it increases the capacity of adaptation of the organism to the physical or psychic efforts. In studies with rats, one has seen that the hipófisis stimulates so much as the suprarrenales glands.

Cardiovascular system: it has a vasorregulador effect, standardizing the arterial pressure.

Reproductive system: it favors the espermatogénesis (it increases the production of spermatozoa); it stimulates the sexual glands (masculine as as much feminine), increasing the production of hormones; it increases the capacity sexual, improving the frequency and the quality of the erection in the man, and favoring the excitation of the genital organs in the woman. It is not a afrodisíaco in the strict sense of the word, because its action does not consist of exciting sexual desire, but in improving the capacity and the operation of the genital organs.

The indications for the use of ginseng are the following ones:

Physical exhaustion: asthenia (weakness), easy fatigue, lack of vital energy, convalecencia of diseases or operations.

Sport training: ginseng figure in the list of prohibited substances not to produce doping.

Stress, psychosomatic diseases (gastritis, colitis, jaquecas, asthma, palpitaciones).

Psychic exhaustion, depression, anxiety, insomnia. Very useful for the students at time of examinations.

Precocious aging, senility.

Hiper or arterial hypotension.

Anemia: Specially useful to recover the losses of blood after hemorrhages or donations.

Upheavals of the sexuality: impotence, feminine frigidity, hormonal insufficiency, masculine or feminine sterility.

Use: ginseng habitually appears in form of prepared phamacists (drinkable extracts, capsules, blisters, etc.). The habitual dose is of 0.5 to 1.5 grams of dust by root to the day, in a single one or several takings. It is necessary to consider that the action of ginseng is slow but cumulative. The effects begin to notice from 2ª or 3ª week of treatment. It is recommended to take it from form continued during certain time (maximum 2 or S months), and to rest of 1 to 2 months before initiating another cycle of treatment.

Precautions: in overdoses they can produce nervousness. It does not agree to associate it with the coffee or the tea, since nervous tación can cause exci; or with medicines that contain iron, because this my neral interferes chemically with the active principles of ginseng, dismi nuyendo its effects.

Productos

List of Products of HIPERnatural.COM with KOREAN GINSENG:

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	Ginseng Coreano - Il Hwa (100 cap x 500 mg) 100 Capsules of 500 mg Tongil Psychic and Physical fatigue Physicist	Shopping Cart	48,39 €
	Ginseng Coreano - Il Hwa (50 cap x 500 mg) 50 Capsules of 500 mg Tongil Psychic and Physical fatigue Physicist	Shopping Cart	27,49 €
	Ginseng Coreano - Il Hwa (Extracto) Extracts of 30 gr Tongil Psychic and Physical fatigue Physicist	Shopping Cart	40,95 €
	Ginseng Coreano - Il Hwa (Tabletas) 90 Tablets of 250 mg Tongil Psychic and Physical fatigue Physicist	Shopping Cart	13,19 €

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