Ginseng american

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

Ginseng reaches a height of 30 to 60 cm. A stem bears 3-5 branches, each with 3-5 leaves arranged in a finger-like pattern like chestnut leaves. A vigorously developed "rhizome" usually consists of multi-branched, spindle-shaped or cylindrical root systems, 8-20 cm long and about 2 cm thick.

Ginseng is now 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 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.