PHARMACOLOGICAL STUDIES OF PANAX GINSENG ROOT: ESTIMATION OF PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIONS OF PANAX GINSENG ROOT

Abstract

Ginseng root has been utilized for thousands of years in China, Korea and Japan as an important drug in Chinese medicine. Chemical researches on Ginseng root have been reported by a number of investigators (1–8), especially Shibata and his co-workers have investigated the chemical structure of Japan-cultivate-Panax gieseng saponins and sapogenins (9–16).