Collaboration will improve the safe integration of all therapies during your experience with cancer. There is insufficient evidence demonstrating that ginseng is a treatment for cancer. The main active constituents of Panax species are recognized to be triterpene saponins, termed ginsenosides or panaxosides, whose structures and distribution vary with species and variety. Commonly known as eleuthero or eleuthero ginseng.
Fresh ginseng is less than four years old and can be consumed in the fresh state.
The red ginseng is harvested after six years, and then steamed and dried. The principles believed to be responsible for ginseng's activity are triterpenoid saponins that exist in the root in large numbers. Again, the nomenclature of these compounds is extremely confusing and complex, for some of the same compounds were isolated by different groups of investigators and given different names. Then too, there are differences in composition between the Asian and American ginseng species. Ginseng has been used by man for thousands of years, and Oriental folk medicine describes it as both a tonic for restoration of strength and a panacea.