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Ginseng, also known as Asian ginseng, Chinese ginseng or Korean ginseng, is a perennial herbaceous plant from the family of ivy plants (Araliaceae). The ginseng plant grows in the mountain and forest regions of northern Korea, in northeastern China and southeastern Siberia.

In the meantime, ginseng is cultivated worldwide due to the medicinal importance of its roots (ginseng has been used as a medicinal plant in traditional Asian medicine for more than 2000 years).

The ginseng reaches a size of 30 to 60 cm. A stem carries 3-5 branches with 3-5 leaves each, arranged like fingers like chestnut leaves. A vigorously developed "rootstock" usually consists of multi-branched, spindle-shaped or cylindrical, 8-20cm long, approximately 2cm thick root systems.

The ginseng plant, Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer, is the parent plant of the medically used ginseng root, ginseng radix, also known as Radix ginseng. The drug has been positively monographed by Commission E.