What's the difference between regular ginsend and Asian Ginseng Panax?

I read this article http://www.shvoong.com/medicine-and-heal鈥?/a> but I don't know if its any different from the ginseng I've always used.|||No difference!|||one is for stamiana, endurance


....one is for energy








I forgot which is which., but thats the difference|||There are different forms of plants and the composition of nutrients and other phytochemicals changes from one to the next. Sometimes it is very subtle and other times it is significant.





Where a plant is grown can also change its properties significantly. For example, most people who enjoy wine know that the grapes can only be grown in certain soils and certain regions. If you grow them anywhere else, you don't get good flavors. Well, those flavors come from the phytochemicals in the grapes.





The USDA used to track the nutritional differences between produce based on where it was grown. It used to be publicly known that a carrot grown in Florida soil was less nutritious than one grown in Michigan.





The functional difference between panax ginseng and American ginseng may be subtle but a master herbalist is very aware of these differences.|||There are several different kinds of "ginseng".





Panax Ginseng is "asian ginseng" and it comes in white and red ginseng. From wikipedia:





Panax Ginseng promotes Yang energy, improves circulation, increases blood supply, revitalizes and aids recovery from weakness after illness, stimulates the body.


Panax Ginseng is available in two forms:





The form called white ginseng is grown for four to six years, and then peeled and dried to reduce the water content to 12% or less. White Ginseng is air dried in the sun and may contain less of the therapeutic constituents. It is thought by some that enzymes contained in the root break down these constituents in the process of drying. Drying in the sun bleaches the root to a yellowish-white color.





The form called red ginseng is harvested after six years, is not peeled and is steam-cured, thereby giving them a glossy reddish-brown coloring. Steaming the root is thought to change its biochemical composition and also to prevent the breakdown of the active ingredients. The roots are then dried.





Asian ginseng is usually Warm in nature. Panax quinquefolius, or american ginseng, is Cold in nature and promotes Yin.





from wikipedia:


According to Traditional Chinese/Korean Medicine, American Ginseng promotes Yin energy, cleans excess Yang in the body, calms the body. The reason it has been claimed that American ginseng promotes Yin (shadow, cold, negative, female) while East Asian ginseng promotes Yang (sunshine, hot, positive, male) is that, according to traditional Korean medicine, things living in cold places are strong in Yang and vice versa, so that the two are balanced. Chinese/Korean ginseng grows in northeast China and Korea, the coldest area known to Korean in the old time, so ginseng from there is supposed to be very Yang. And originally, American ginseng was imported into China via subtropical Canton, the seaport next to Hong Kong, so Chinese doctors believed that American ginseng must be good for Yin, because it came from a hot area. However they did not know that American ginseng can only grow in temperate regions. Nonetheless the root is legitimately classified as more Yin because it generates fluids.





Siberian Ginseng is not a true ginseng.