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Radix Panacis Quinquefolii
Definition
Radix Panacis Quinquefolii consists of the dried roots of Panax quinquefolius
L. (Araliaceae) (1–3).
Synonyms
Aralia quinquefolia Dec. & Planch., Ginseng quinquefolium Wool, Panax
americanum Raf. (4).
Selected vernacular names
Ameerika zensen, American ginseng, American white ginseng, Amerika
ninjin, Amerikanischer Ginseng, Amerikanne Ginseng, Canadian ginseng,
Canadian white ginseng, Chinese seng, five fingers, garantogen, ginseng
americano, ginseng d’Amerique, hsi-yang-shen, hua-ch’i-seng, huach’i-senh,
little Indian, man root, matc’etasa, ninsin, North American
ginseng, seng, seiyou ninjin, shang, wenane, wild American ginseng, xi
yang shen, xi-yang-shen (5, 6).
Geographical distribution
Native to Canada and the United States, and cultivated in France and
northern China (7).
Description
Herb, up to more than 1 m high; rootstock fusiform, up to 2 cm in diameter;
stem straight, slender, subterete, often striate; leaves 3 or 4, 5 (3–7)-
foliolate, petiole slender, up to 10 (rarely to 15) cm long, leaflets thin, elliptic
to obovate, up to 16 cm long and 8.5 cm broad (the basal ones
smaller, often ovate), acute to rounded at the base, acuminate at the apex,
conspicuously and often doubly serrate, the teeth deltoid, acute, the petiolules
up to 4.5 cm long, the principal veins slightly raised on both surfaces,
lateral veins 5–9, ascending; peduncle slender, straight, up to 10
(rarely to 30) cm long, the bractlets deltoid to lanceolate, acute, 2–5 mm
long; pedicels 15–40 per umbel, up to 12 mm long, swollen distally; calyx
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