Ginseng

El ginseng es un pequeño arbusto de menos de un metro que crece en China, Japón y Rusia, en Estados unidos crece otra especie, panax quinquefolius.

Con hojas palmeadas de finos foliolos y serrados, flores de color amarillo y fruto en forma de drupa.

Ginseng is a small shrub of less than a meter that grows in China, Japan and Russia, in the United States grows another species, panax quinquefolius. Leaves with palmate fine leaflets and jagged, shaped drupe fruit and yellow flowers.

The main active ingredients of ginseng are main difference, pentacyclic saponins with ginseng Siberian (Eleutherococcus), called ginsenosides, which is attributed to the therapeutic properties of this plant, also contains glycosides, essential oils and amino acids.