Background

Natural or botanical health products

Overview of usage of herbal products for health

Different Types of Herbal Products

1. Supervised by health care practitioners

2. As self-care products, self-directed use (NPHs regulations)

Issues with Botanical Health Products

1. Concern about predictable quality and health benefit?

• Biological effects are induces by secondary plant metabolites, which are produc...

GINSENG: THE PLANT 

• Perennial herb with short underground stem and fleshy white root. 

• Three or four years, the plants starts to flower. 

• Most plant parts contain active components 

• Main roots used for Traditional Chinese Medicine

Mayor Panax species: 

1.  Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer: Oriental, Asian or Korea ginseng. Long hsitory of use >> 4,000 years. Cultivated in China, Korea, and Japan....