86 ‘' PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUM. 
price being too expensive for the common people. 
The sick take it to recover health, and the healthy 
to make themselves stronger and more vigorous. 
They affirm that it removes all fatigue, either of 
body or mind, dissolyes humours, cures pulmona- 
ry diseases, strengthens the stomach, increases 
the vital spirits, and prolongs life to old age. [ts 
price at Pekin, according to travellers, has been 
eight or nine times its weight in silver, and even 
more, : eNaTitant 
_ Father Jartoux became so fara convert to the 
virtues of the plant, that he tells us that after hay- 
ing taken half of a root, he found his pulse quick- 
er and. fuller, his appetite improved, and. his 
strength increased so as to bear labour better 
than before. On another occasion, finding him- 
self so fatigued and wearied as to be searce able 
to siton horseback, a mandarin in company per- 
ceiving his distress, gaye one of the roots. He 
took half of it, and.in an hour was not sensible 
of any weariness. “1 have observed,” says he, 
“ that the green leaves, especially the fibrous part 
of them, when chewed, would produce nearly the 
same effect. The Tartars often bring us the 
leaves of Ginseng instead of tea, and I always 
find myself so well afterwards, that I should read- 
ily prefer them before the best tea. Their de- 
