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Again one question about the difference between 3-year and 6-year ginseng

Hello. I have a question which I wonder ... I ask you to comparison shop from 2 ginseng Ariadne.cz : I know that 3-year-old is not as strong as the ratio of active ingredients 6-year-old Liang, but in financial terms it's a big difference . So if you recommend a daily dose of 3g of 6-year-old ginseng, will it take cheaper to enjoy 9g ginseng 3-year-old? Or is it that in the 3-year ginseng there are still no substances (some essential) containing up to 6-year-old ginseng? Thank you for answer. Jiří K.

Hello, Mr. Jiří!

In short, the answers to your two questions are "yes" and "no":

  • Yes, the 3-year-old woman is paid more for the panaxoside. (Beware, this does not have to be true for all cheap ginsengs - they can have panaxosides total ten times less!)
  • No, as far as I know, there is no substance in a 6-year-old ginseng , and it could not even be detected in small amounts in a 3-year-old ginger.

According to the TCM tradition, only adult ginseng is suitable for serious treatment, so the older the better. There are certain reasons to question this tradition. The Principle of Asian Tradition is the uncritical acceptance of ancestral knowledge. Personally, I do not think there is any difference between ginseng 6-year-old and wild ginseng 50-year-old, but people do not explain it.

On the other hand, the difference between young (3-year) and adult (6-year) ginseng is more than just spiritual, it is the difference in panaxoside ratios. But he does not know how important this difference is.

But again, we get to what I do not want and I have to emphasize: that gens and modern science do not understand. I repeat, the use of ginseng in medicine is not a result of modern research . This is just a confirmation that the effects of ginseng are not the result of a fantasy of charlatans. Current science across all gene databases is still not able to predict what clinical effects a given set of molecules will and will not have. (And I just came back from a lecture by Justin Lamb of MIT managing this database .) Consequently, contemporary science does not tell us how much a 6-year-old ginseng is better than a 3-year-old. There is no other way than the long clinical testing that the TCM has behind. Perhaps the closest approximation of modern science to the problem of optimal age of ginseng was Last year the Korean publication Sathiyamoorthy2010ggo that examined ginseng difference between the root 14 years old, 4-year-old and root hairs analyzed the occurrence of several thousands of species of mRNA molecules and as a conclusion did not draw anything.

So to finally give some resolution: For an average healthy person, a young ginseng is enough for a daily boost, for the sick and for people under heavy strain the 6-year-old.

Regards,
-boris-

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