Health benefits of Panax ginseng
Panax ginseng is known for helping to improve thinking, concentration, athletic endurance, and overall health. Research suggests that Panax Ginseng is likely effective in treating the following conditions:
- Thinking and memory skills: Taking Panax Ginseng supplements by mouth is believed to improve abstract thinking, mental arithmetic skills, and reaction times in healthy, middle-aged people. Certain studies suggest that Panax Ginseng alone may not be effective enough, but when used along with ginkgo leaf extract can help to improve memory.
- Diabetes: Panax Ginseng may help to lower fasting blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes.
- Male impotence: Taking Panax Ginseng by mouth improves sexual function in men with erectile dysfunction (ED).
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Taking Panax ginseng by mouth helps improve lung function and symptoms of COPD.
- Premature ejaculation: Creams containing ginseng and other ingredients can be applied directly to the skin of the penis to treat premature ejaculation.
- Poor athletic performance
- Lack mood and sense of well-being
- Hot flashes, fatigue, insomnia, and depression associated with menopause
- Breast cancer
- Common cold
- Infection of the airway in the lung
- Influenza
- Stomach, lung, liver, ovarian, and skin cancer: Certain studies suggest that taking Panax Ginseng by mouth may help to decrease the occurrence of these cancers.
- Depression
- Anaemia
- Fluid retention
- Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
- Fever
- Stomach inflammation and other digestive problems