What are the uses and effects of ginseng?

There are many rare Chinese medicinal materials in our lives, Cordyceps is one of them, and ginseng is also one of them. Even the most precious and highest quality ginseng has an astonishing price, which is no longer measured in tens of thousands. However, people's living standards have improved now, so eating ginseng for health care is obviously a very easy thing. So, what are the uses and effects of ginseng?

Ginseng can prevent and treat acute and chronic altitude sickness caused by hypoxia

Under hypoxic conditions at an altitude of 7000m, a study on the changes in the ultrastructure of the cerebral cortex of rats under acute hypoxic conditions showed that it has a significant effect in protecting the ultrastructure of cerebral cortical neurons from hypoxic damage; experiments have also observed that ginsenosides do have a significant inhibitory effect on the utilization of endogenous glycogen.

At the same time, it can enhance tissue respiration, promote anaerobic glycolysis, increase production capacity under hypoxic conditions, and reduce the body's oxygen consumption, so it can protect neurons and the cardiovascular system and improve tolerance to hypoxia. Clinically proven, ginsenosides are effective in preventing and treating acute and chronic altitude sickness.

Ginseng can improve brain oxygen uptake

Ginseng also has a significant effect on cerebral blood flow and brain energy metabolism. Ginseng preparations can increase the glucose uptake in rabbit brain, while reducing lactate, pyruvate and the lactate/pyruvate ratio, and can convert the utilization of glucose from anaerobic metabolism to aerobic metabolism. Ginseng can also increase the free inorganic phosphorus in the cerebral cortex by 25%. Ginseng fruit saponins can improve the brain's oxygen uptake capacity. Ginseng total saponins and ginseng root total saponins have protective effects on cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury. In short, ginseng can enable the animal brain to utilize the energy substance glucose more rationally, oxidize energy, and synthesize more ATP for activities such as learning and memory.

Ginseng plateau mixture has the ability to resist plateau hypoxia

Through the acute decompression and hypoxia experiment, it was proved that ginseng plateau mixture can significantly reduce the mortality rate of mice and improve their ability to endure acute hypoxia.

The mechanism of ginseng plateau mixture in resisting hypoxia needs further study, which may be related to its improving blood circulation of the heart, brain, lungs, etc., improving myocardial metabolism, anti-thrombosis, thrombolysis, improving blood rheology and adaptogenic effects.

Ginseng plateau mixture needs to be put into clinical use to test its efficacy in combating high altitude hypoxia.