SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCERegardless of the growing medical disdain for herbs and natural remedies throughout the West, a renewed interest in ginseng was ignited in the late 1940s and early 1950s, chiefly as a result of study carried out in the former Soviet Union. Some reports tie the Soviet curiosity about ginseng to their occupations of North Korea, where they learned that it was taken regularly by Korean soldiers. Soviet commanders sent wild ginseng home for study, and it quickly turned the theme of serious scientific experimentation. The first scientific tests of ginseng were performed by Itskovity I. Brekhman, a medical doctor at the Institute of Physiology and Pharmacology in Vladivosk, Russia. Brekhman decided to scrutinize ginseng base on experiments begun by his teacher, Professor N. V. Lazarev, who was trying to recognize ingredients that could pro actively help people preserve good well-being and avoid disease at all times. Lazarev called these ingredients "adaptogens," because they help the body adapt or regulate to stressful environment. Lazarev specifically defined three criteria that adaptogens have to accomplish: 1. They have to be innocuous, i.e., cause minimal disruption in the physiological functions of an organism. 2. They have to be non-specific in action, meaning that they must increase resistance to a wide range of physical, chemical, and biochemical conditions. 3. They have to trigger a normalizing action that brings the body back into balance. Lazarev had tested various com  pounds without success. It is not identified
accurately what prompted Brekhman to believe of ginseng, but he started
to perform experiments with the Asian category Pan-ax ginseng to ensure
if it match the standards Lazarev had proposed.One experiment in particular influenced Brehman that ginseng had dominant adaptogenic properties. In this test, he gave fifty men a fluid dose of ginseng root, while an additional fifty men were given a placebo. All one hundred men then ran a 3,000-meter race, and those who had taken the ginseng came in an average of fifty-three seconds ahead than the control group. This astonishing disparity in velocity impressed Brekhman, so he began to conduct hundreds of other test on ginseng. All these tests uniformly established an increased performance from those who had taken ginseng versus those who had taken only a placebo. In the early 1950, Brekhman extended his study of ginseng to the related ginseng varieties, Eleutherococcus senticosus (Siberian ginseng). Pan-ax ginseng was in short quantity in the Soviet Union, but Siberian ginseng grew in large quantities throughout Siberia. He found that Siberian ginseng had almost all of the similar healthful qualities as Pan-ax ginseng, with only small variations. For the next forty years, Brekhman and other Soviet scientists studied the pharmacology and biochemistry of Siberian ginseng in great detail, conducting over one thousand experiments on it, all of which continued to confirm many beneficial effects. The results were so optimistic that the Soviets started commercial production of Siberian ginseng extract and made it accessible to the Soviet community.  It was prescribed for Soviet cosmonauts, who at the time were out
pacing the United States in the "space race,” and for Soviet Olympic
athletes, whose following significant accomplishment improvements were
attributed to the root.The Russians also used Siberian ginseng to help miners, factory workers, mountain rescues, divers, and many others involved in physically or mentally demanding labor. Brekhman continued to study ginseng for many years, and turned out to be one of the most prolific researchers and writers on the topic. His work is known throughout the world, and his tests have been replicated at many universities, including the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Illinois, and the University of Minnesota. The Soviet research has led a number of Japanese and European pharmaceutical corporations to become involved in testing ginseng under restricted conditions and in increased the testing to address a larger range of health problems. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All information is based on historical data. Herbs and formulas have been used for thousands of years in the Orient and are recognized by modern herbalists. Many people in China, Korea, and Japan have improved their health as well as cured their ailments with these herbs and formulas. Copyright © 2010-12 AmazingGinseng.com All right reserved
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