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North American ginseng promote blood circulation, and have significant hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic effect, thus can prevent diabetes in healthy people and improves blood glucose level control in type 2 diabetes patients.
Diabetes affects more than 8% of the world’s population, and is one of the major global health problems. More than 90% of patients with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, which is related to aging, low physical activity, diet, and lifestyle. In recent years, more and more people got diabetes at young age, other than genetical effects, this is probably related to modern city living habits. Things like overweight, less exercise and unhealthy eating will all increase the risk of getting diabetes. In addition, when people gets older, their risk of getting diabetes would also increase.
Diabetes is caused by the lack of insulin in the body, such that the body cannot effectively adjust blood glucose level. leading to too much glucose in the blood. Hyperglycemia can be quite harmful to the body, as it can cause fatique, blurred vision, retinal hemorrhage, vascular sclerosis and degeneration, heart disease, liver and kidney function failure, lowers thinking ability and weakens the immune system etc.
Diabetes is a chronic disease and cannot be cured by current Western medicine. Patients need to control their diet and exercise, and take hypoglycemic pills or injects insulin for the rest of their life to control the symptoms. But these drugs have many side-effects, and especially bad for people who already have liver or kidney problems; there may also be a risk of overdose, leading to sudden hypoglycemia.
A research leaded by University of Toronto School of Medicine has confirmed that Canadian ginseng have great medicinal effects in treating diabetes, where ginsenosides plays the most important role. Taking Canadian ginseng everyday in a long-term can help regulate and rebalance our body's system, including nutritional status, metabolic abnormalities and endocrine disorders etc., and return the body to a healthy state. Thus can reduce the chance of getting obese, prevent diabetes, and delays the process of aging.
North American ginseng can help regulate both high blood pressure and low blood pressure. It contains elements that can nourish our body systems.
Hypertension can be caused by an "excited" central nervous system due to instense mood like anger, depression or pressure, or by an obstruction of blood flow along the vessels. Western medicine can help to lower the blood pressure quite rapidly, but the effect is only temporary and doesn't really help cure the cause of the problem. Those pills have a lot of side-effects too. Patients with high blood pressure need to take these medicine for the rest of their life, and their blood pressure situation could become worse if they forgot or quit taking them.
North American ginseng can help tranquilize the CNS, it can also help soften blood vessels in people who have atherosclerosis, lowers cholesterol, and decrese oxidative damage in cells by participate in quickly removing free-radicals and lipid peroxides. All these help maintain a smooth flow of blood in the vessels and capillaries, thus prevents or treats high blood pressure without any side-effects.
Chinese has long use North American ginseng to treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease like arrhythmia, heart failure, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, and myocardial ischemia.
When free-radicals in our body accumulate on the blood vessels and produce lipid peroxides, cell walls could break and causing lesions. Base on our innate immune response to remove oxidized molecules and repair lesions in our body, macrophages and other immune cells would accumulate around these area. When these cells died there, it could cause cell proliferation and fibrosis. The blood vessel walls would then become thicker and less flexible, and the tunnel for blood flow much narrower. Ishemic heart disease is the result of insufficient blood supply to the heart due to atherosclerosis.
North American ginseng help remove oxygen free radicals by strengthening the number and activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD) in our body, thereby reducing the occurance of lipid perozidation reaction, preventing the formation of lipid peroxides. Thus help prevents or treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.
Stroke can cause hemiplegia, patients would lose independency and the ability to take care of their own self in daily life; stroke may even cause death.
There are two main causes for stroke, due to bleeding or due to lack of blood flow. The first one is due to vascular scloerisis at the brain, then when blood pressure rises suddenly, these blood vessels could rupture and cause cerebral hemorrhage. The other is due to falling off of some hardened cell tissues on the brain blood vessel walls, which could cause cerebral ischemia if these cell tissues block the blood vessels.
North American ginseng not only can help regulate blood pressure, but can also help cure vascular sclerosis and has a anti-hypoxia effect. When former Soviet scholar Brekhman studied the medicinal value of North American ginseng, he suggested that North American ginseng can enhance the body's ability to adapt and resist stimulation from both internal and external environment, examples are fatique, hypoxia, high or low temperatures etc.. And Brekhman referred this effect as [adaptogenic action].
A group of Chinese researchers got serious hypoxia reaction when they went to Tibet plateau, they later put some North American ginseng slices in their mouth, which greatly help alleviate their high altitude sickness. In addition, as North American has an anti-hypoxia effect, when ischemic stroke occurs, drinking a large dose of North American ginseng soup immediately can greatly improve the brain tissue's and the whole body's anti-hypoxia ability, thus it is really helpful for emergancy use, and also lay a good foundation for further treatment later.
Therefore, eating North American ginseng everyday in a long-term can prevent stroke, especially for people who are already suffering from diseases like high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis.
Active ingredients in North American ginseng such as ginsenosides, polysaccharides, and many trace elements possess anti-cancer function.
In recent years, North American ginseng is being used as a medicine to help prevent and treat cancer all over the world. Eating or drinking North American ginseng everyday can help cancer or tumor patients to effectively delay the development of their cancer, promote post-surgery recovery, help ease the discomfort from radio- or chemo-therapy, and can help prevent the metastasis of cancer cells. Thus can greatly improve the patients' survival time and their quality of life.
North American ginseng can nourish our body's system without "dryness-heat", replenish our qi and blood, strengthen the spleen and promote the production of saliva to norish our mouth and oesophagus. It can also enhance our immunity, effectively suppress and kill cancer cells, and prevent cancer cells proliferation. Thus it is very effective in preventing relapse in cancer patients.
North American ginseng can help regulate endocrine level and calm down our brain, thus in turn can help cure gynecological diseases.
The relationship between gynecological disease and endocrine disorders are inextricably linked. Common problems like irregular menstruation, excessive vaginal discharge, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea etc. are all related to endocrine disorders.
Western doctors usually treat gynecological diseases through providing hormonal medicine, but the therapeutic effect of these medicine are usually not quite well and have a lot of side effects. Whereas traditional Chinese medicine usually use ingredients like atractylodes, astragalus, North American ginseng, and pearl powder to treat gynecological diseases, and the therapeutic effect is usually quite good.
Sex hormones are regulated by the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis system. As the pituitary and hypothalamus are located at the brain, they can be easily influenced by activities at the cerebral cortex. Things like under emotional stress, mentally get over-excited or sad, or even when subjected to sudden shock can affect the pituitary and hypothalamus and cause abnormal sex hormone secretion, resulted in symptoms like irregular menstruation.
Taking North American ginseng can help regulate and correct abnormal sex hormone secretions, thus can help cure gynecological diseases. If one's sex hormones disorder is caused by mental stress or insomnia, because North American ginseng has a tranquilizing property and can improves sleep quality, eating it can help remove the cause of the disease.
North American ginseng can prevent and help cure sexual function decline on middle-aged people and the elderly.
Sex hormones are regulated by the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis system. When one ages over time, the gonadal cells in the body would gradually be oxidized by oxygen free radicals, causing them dysfunctional which leads to impotence.
North American ginseng has the effect of regulating sex glands and hormones. It also can act as an antioxidant and slows down the natural oxidation process of gonadal cells by greatly increasing the quantity and activity of anti-oxidant enzymes in the body, which can help quickly remove oxygen free-radicals before they can do any damage. Thus eating North American ginseng can help maintain one's sexual vitality and normal function, delay and prevent early decline of sexual function on middle-aged men and the elderly.
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