Different types of Ginseng

[bodhitree]

Recently I've been cutting weight for a tournament, which for me has meant giving up coffee (I know coffee has no calories, but I love cream and sugar in it) So I've been drinking a whole lot of tea. My friend's chinese medicine store sells American ginseng in teabags (for $.25).

What are the health benefits of American Ginseng vs Korean vs Siberian?

I'm looking more for researched scientific findings over "one raises yang qi and the other yin" type answers.


Thanks
b-tree

edit: I probably should have used the search function but I'm lazy.

[Royal Dragon]

American and Korean/Chinese are very similar. The Chinese/Korean (Panax) vairety is basically much more tonicy, where as the American Ginseng is not so much so, but retians the same or simillar levels of adaptagenic qualities.

Siberian Ginseng is not Ginseng at all, but some sort of shrub. It is more stimulateing, and I believe less adaptagenic.

I used to use the Chinese stuff just prior to practice to boost me so I trained harder, and then the American after to help with recovery.

None of that does any good if you are really tired though. Infact i have found that Ginseng actually makes me MORE sleepy if I am really tired, or burnt out. I recouperate faster, but it knockes me out almost as if i took some sort of sleep aid.

[bodhitree]

Thanks for the reply!