ginseng

this is puzzling me..........

the hear is quoted as performance enhancing by a friend of mine, but when i read the litera#ture on the bottle, it says some worrying things.like, "don't take for prolonged periods"
"don't mix with caffiene"
"after a month taking ginseng, take two months without it"
"can be used by anyone wishing to see immediate results especially athletes."


i would be greatly appreciative if any of the medically minded people(by profession or otherwise) could offer explainations to the statements above, just to set my mind straight.

BP

I take a multi-vit with ginseng in it ... not all the time, mainly because I forget!

Can't say it's ever had any astonishing results for me . . . not that I've noticed, anyway. But it doesn't seem to have done me any harm, either!

I was told by a homeopath it can aggravate a tendency to breast cancer - no idea what research evidence that was based on. Wasn't Barabara Cartland the ginseng queeen?

Sounds like a red-rag for a velociraptor :-)

boing---------------

awaiting a v-rap post!

It makes a lot of money for the supplement departments of the multinational pharmaceutical companies. Apart from that, nothing.