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The ginsenosides in North American ginseng can help strengthen and enhance the effectiveness of our immune system, its rich amino acids can also help improve our immunity.
It should be noted that the different effects North American ginseng exerts on improving our body's health is collaborative and complementing with each other. For example, enhancing the immune system would have anti-aging effect, and improves sleeping by treating insomnia could in turn improves our body's immunity. This reflects the characteristic of North American ginseng, namely, exerting a comprehensive coordination effect on all of our body's systems, organs, tissues and cells. This is different from the effects of general Western medicine or nutrition supplements, which usually only targets on one specific symptom or disease.
North American ginseng can dissipate tiredness and even help to cure fatigue syndrome. When one feels tried and sleepy at work, they can drink ginseng tea to refresh themselves, which is more healthy than drinking coffee.
What is fatigue syndrome or chronic fatigue syndrome? People with this syndrome suffers a lot. The main sensation includes feeling tired on every part of the body, and so one has no mood or energy in doing anything. Patients could feel headache and dizziness quite easily if they sit or stand for a slightly longer period of time, thus would wish to lie down for rest; but when lying down, they could also experience difficulty in sleeping, and would still feel uncomfortable no matter what they try to do.
Fatigue syndrome occurs on many people in the modern society, mainly due to high mental stress, work overload, always stay-up late at night, drink too much alcohol, and unhealthy diet etc.. All these habits could cause fatigue on one's body system and organs in the long term, and leads to a functional decline of one's overall body system including immunity, which one would feels tired all the time as an external symptom. Patients with this chronic syndrome would have a much higher chance of getting cancer too.
Modern Western medicine currently do not have a cure on fatigue syndrome, doctors usually recommend patients to rest more and take some vitamins, but basically cannot resolve the problem.
So what can people with fatigue syndrome do? They can try to take North American ginseng everyday.
North American ginseng can help cure fatigue syndrome. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, fatigue is caused by a Qi (inner energy) and Yin deficiency in the body, so it needs to be treated by regaining Qi and Yin. As North American ginseng is more Yin in nature and contains various essential elements our body needs, it can nourish Yin and supply Qi, thus help regain the internal balance of Yin and Yang energy in the patient's body, so that the body would become healthy again.
Ginsenosides Rg1 and Rb1 in North American ginseng can improve learning and memory acquisition, consolidation, and retrieval. Ginsenosides Rd and Re also have protective effects on neurodegeneration. These ginsenosides can prevent and antagonized cognitive deficit, memory loss and impairment. They can help rescue neuronal cells by increasing cell survival, extending neurite growth, and rescuing neurons from death. Thus eating North American ginseng can have beneficial effects for patients who got brain diseases like cerebral ischemia, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases etc..
There are many mechanisms involved on how ginsenosides exerts a positive impact on our cognitive function and memory. For example, Rb1 promote neurotransmitter release by a cAMP-dependent protein kinase pathway, and Rg1 produce this effect through a protein kinase II-dependent signaling pathway. Rg1 and Rb1 increase the level of ACH and facilitate the release of glutamate between the nerves cells in the brain. ACH is a very important neurotransmitter in the brain, and its scarcity often leads to learning and memory impairment. Glutamate is another neurotransmitter, and is also important for learning, memory, and cognitive function.
As all brain activities require communication between nerve cells, meaning transmitting neurotransmitters between nerve synapses, more neurotransmitters available means higher activity can be achieved. Thus can directly improve learning and memory. During experiment, British scientist Dr. Steven Fulder found that after eating ginseng for a period of time, a person's work efficiency could be increased by 15%, and the error rate could be reduced by half.
North American ginseng can greatly increase the number and activity of antioxidant enzymes in the body, which can quickly remove oxygen free-radicals in our cells before they can do any damage. Free-radicals is very active in nature, they can undergo oxidation reaction with almost any body tissue, including proteins, membranes and DNA, and rendering them dysfunctional, causing different kinds of diseases and cancer. According to statistics, few people died healthy due to old age, and most died from certain disease or cancer. Thus North American ginseng can lower our chance of dying earily from diseases and cancer.
This is why North American ginseng can prolong lifespan if we take it everyday, this effect would be greater if we start to do so while we are still young and strong.
North American ginseng can help improves sleep quality and treats insomnia as it has a tranquilizing property.
Many people have insomnia problem. When people are under stress and work pressure in a long-term, their bodies' physical state would decline, and the function of organs and systems would be weaken. When this happens, the cooperation and harmony of the body's systems would be broken and the biological clock would be disrupted, resulting in insomnia.
Sleeping is a natural biological process for our body's system to rest and repair itself. For example, sleeping can reinstate our tense nerves and tired muscles after a whole day's work, so as to maintain our mental and physical health in the long term. Therefore having sleeping disorder would pose a great threat on our health. A lack of sleep would cause physical decline, weakens our immune system, such that one would be more prone to diseases and cancer, and thus also accelerates aging.
People usually take sleeping pills if they have insomnia. Currently, modern Western medicine still doesn't have a cure for insomnia other than telling people to take pills. But sleeping pills is addictive and its effects would weaken overtime so people need to take higher and higher dosage in order to fall asleep. It also has a lot of potential side effects, such as lowering our body's response and reaction rate, and affects the function of the cardiovascular and respiratory system etc.
Eating North American ginseng can cure insomnia without any side-effects. Usually people got insomnia because the nerve cells in their cerebral cortex are too excited and cannot calm down when it's time to sleep, and ginseng can help tranquilize the central nervou system. Other than calming down our brain, North American ginseng contains ginsenoside, polysaccharides, amino acids and many other trace elements that are beneficial on many aspects of our body's cells, organs and systems. Insomnia is mainly due to a disruption on the biological clock of our body, as ginseng can help retore the balance and harmony of our body's system, it can eliminate the cause of insomnia and cure insomnia for good.
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