Ginseng 60capsules

Description

Other Name:

Araliaceae  (family) / Siberian Ginseng / Devil’s Root / Touch-Me-Not / Acanthopanax Senticosus / Devil’s Bush / Eleuthero / Wu-chia-p’i

Botanical Description:

• Shrubs, to 6 m tall. Branches with dense to scattered, slender, terete, bristle like prickles.
• Petiole 3-12 cm, slender, sometimes with fine prickles; petiolule of central leaflet (0.6-)1.2-2 cm, usually brownish pubescent; leaflets (3-)5, elliptic-obovate or oblong, 5-13 × 3-7 cm, papery, abaxially pubescent on veins, adaxially with scattered hairs, secondary veins 6 or 7 pairs, conspicuous on both surfaces, base broadly cuneate, margin sharply biserrate, apex shortly acuminate or acuminate.
• Inflorescence terminal, a solitary or compound umbel, borne on leafy shoots, usually with 2-6 umbels together; peduncles 5-7 cm, glabrous; pedicels 1-2 cm, glabrous or slightly pubescent at base.
• Calyx subentire or with 5 inconspicuous teeth, glabrous.
• Corolla purple-yellow.
• Ovary 5-carpellate; styles united into a column.
• Fruit ovoid-globose, ca. 8 mm; styles persistent, ca. 1.5 mm.

Part of Plant Used:

• Root

Main Uses:

A nutritional supplement used for thousands of years as an all round tonic, aid for stress, and particularly beneficial for the very active and the elderly.

Interactions:

Do not take ginseng without first talking to your doctor if you are taking any of the following medicines: any heart or blood pressure medicines; a medicine to control blood sugar levels such as insulin, glipizide (Glucotrol), glyburide (Glynase, Diabeta, Micronase), chlorpropamide (Diabinese), tolbutamide (Orinase), tolazamide (Tolinase), troglitazone (Rezulin), rosiglitazone (Avandia), repaglinide (Prandin), metformin (Glucophage), and others; warfarin (Coumadin); aspirin; a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) including ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, Nuprin, others), naproxen (Aleve, Naprosyn, Naprelan, Anaprox, others), ketoprofen (Orudis KT, Orudis), indomethacin (Indocin), etodolac (Lodine), nabumetone (Relafen), oxaprozin (Daypro), piroxicam (Feldene), sulindac (Clinoril), tolmetin (Tolectin), and others; ardeparin (Normiflo); dalteparin (Fragmin); danaparoid (Orgaran); enoxaparin (Lovenox); or heparin.

There are no other known interactions; however, with the proliferation of available drugs it is always advisable to consult your doctor or health care professional before taking this or any other supplements.