in combinations of ailments and use. In Bello-Russia( White Russia) the properties of the rhizome are used as an expectorant, for jaundice, dropsy, to promote milk for the nursing mother, heart trouble, lung tuberculosis, nerve excitement, migraine headache, and laxative. The rhizome as Nastoika( with vodka) for scrofula( Cholousky, 1882; Antonov, 1888), heart palpitation, weakness and lack of stamina of children( Werenko, 1896), poisoning with mushrooms, stomachic( Federevski, 1897), migraine headache, alcoholism, scrofula( Nikolaeva, 1964). The leaves are used for malaria. Clinically: Of late use as tea from leaves for heart trouble, and decoction of rhizome as expectorant for vomiting.
GINGER— WILD Asarum canadense, L.( Zdorovie, Kiev, U. S. S. R., 1964)
GINSENG Panax quinquefolium, L.( N. O.: Ararliaceae)
Common Names: Five Finger Root, American Ginseng, Sang, Ninsin, Panax, Pannag, Red Berry. Features: Indigenous to China, North America; East Asia, American ginseng grows naturally on the slopes of ravines and other shady but well-drained places in hardwood forests, in varying abundance, from eastern Canada to Maine and Minnesota and southwards into the mountain regions of Georgia and Carolina. In its wild state it grows from 8 – 20 in. high, bearing three large leaflets at the top and two smaller ones beneath.
Yellowish green clusters of flowers are produced in midsummer, followed by as many bright crimson berries, which can be seen until the frost. They are edible and taste much like the ginseng root. The berries contain from one to three flattish wrinkled seeds the size of a small pea.“ The root is thick, spindle shaped, 2 – 4 in. long and ½ – 1 in. or more in thickness. The older specimens usually have branched protrusions somewhat resembling a human form. It usually takes at least six years for the root to reach marketable size. Can be cultivated from cracked or partly germinated seed. Ginseng is very shy and must be protected from the sun. The roots should be dug in the autumn when they are not so full of sap. Medicinal Part: The dried root. Solvent: Water. Bodily Influence: Stimulant, Demulcent, Stomachic, Nervine, Aphrodisiac. Uses: If we look in Ezekiel 27:17, we find Ginseng was known to Judah in the market place of Israel. Trading was done in wheat, honey, oil balm and“ Pannag”, or the all-healing Ginseng. Certainly it has been known and respected for centuries. Father Jartoux, in 1679, after he noticed American Indians from the Ozarks and Blue Ridge country employing Ginseng as a medication, started exporting it to England. From there the East India Company sent it around the Cape of Good Hope and on to the Orient.
Ginseng, combined with the juice of a good ripe pineapple, is superior as a treatment for indigestion. It stimulates the healthy secretions of pepsin, thereby ensuring good digestion without