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genus Panax

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Noun1.genus Panax - perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginsenggenus Panax - perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng
rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
Araliaceae, family Araliaceae, ivy family - mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera
nin-sin, Panax ginseng, Panax pseudoginseng, Panax schinseng, ginseng - Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers
American ginseng, Panax quinquefolius, sang - North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng


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The Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng), whose root is more properly called a rhizome, has been known to Chinese herbalists for thousands of years as a cure-all--thus the name of its Latin genus Panax, based on the Greek word "panacea.
Although this product is popularly called Indian ginseng, the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Farm Bill) banned commercial use of the name "ginseng" for any product not containing the herb in the genus Panax.
The agency also found that Natural Vee 2000, Inner Man Gold and Inner Man listed ginseng as an ingredient in a form not derived from a plant classified within the genus Panax, but within the genus Eleutherococcus, instead, which is violation of regulations.
 
 
 
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