Ginseng reduces stress, restores energy, lowers blood pressure, increases stamina, strengthens the immune system, helps control cholestrol, and improves memory.  The active ingredient, ginsenosides, are the components of ginseng that give it it's valuable properties.  Ginseng is used throughout the Far East as a general tonic to combat weakness and give extra energy.  Russian scientists claim that the ginseng root stimulates both physical and mental activity, improves endocrine gland function, and has a positive effect on the sex glands.  Ginseng is beneficial for fatigue because it spares glycogen by increasing the use of fatty acids, as an energy source.  It is used to enhance athletic performance, to rejuvenate and to increase longevity, and to detoxify and normalize the entire system.  Ginseng is beneficial for people with diabetes because, it decreases the level of the hormone cortisol in the blood (cortisol interferes with the function of insulin).  Ginseng is an exotic plant, very difficult to grow properly and bring to harvest.  Once a ginseng garden is grown and harvested, ginseng can not be grown in the same soil for at least 20 to 25 years and possibly never.  Ginseng is very costly to grow, taking up to six years to harvest, and is known as the most expensive legal agricultural crop in the world.  Weary college students looking for mid-term energy and body builders will benefit from this root

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