GINSENG. 



CHAPTER V. 

 GINSENG. 



An Original Proving of the Drug by the University 

 OF Michigan Society of Drug Provers. 



COMPILED 8Y A. E. IBERSHOFF, M. D. 



The following is a part of the report from a bulletin, pub- 

 lished in 1905, by the Homeopathic Department, University of 

 Michigan: 



"GINSENG (from Chinese gin-sen, meaning a panacea) is a 

 root highly esteemed in China as a medicine, being universally 

 regarded as possessing the most extraordinary virtues and as a 

 remedy for almost all diseases, but particularly for exhaustion of 

 body or mind." 



It is counted as a universal tonic and stimulant, especially 

 indicated in the functional decline incident to age. 



The provings of the drug were conducted independently and 

 simultaneously by students of the Homoeopathic Medical College 

 of the University of Michigan, and of the Hahnemann College of 

 the Pacific, of San Francisco. The work was begun by seventeen 

 provers, nine of Michigan and eight from California. Of these 

 seventeen, seven were rejected for inaccuracy and incompleteness- 



A p^rt of the resume of the provings by W. A. Dewey, 

 M. D , Ann Arbor, Mich. 



"From a study of the records of the symptoms produced, we 

 of the Homoeopathic school will not be astonished to find that the 

 employment of Ginseng in the past, that is, where it has been 

 most successfully applied and where it has obtained a reputation 

 of value, rests purely upon a scientific basis." 



