14 GINSENG. 



'' "Ginseng combined with the juices of a good ripe pine-apple 

 is par excellent as a treatment for indigestion. It stimulates the 

 healthy secretion of pepsin, thereby insuring good digestion with- 

 out incurring the habit of taking pepsin or after-dinner pills to re- 

 lieve the fullness and distress so common to the American people. 

 The above compound, prepared with good wine in the proper way, 

 will relieve many aches and pains of a rebellious stomach; and if I 

 should advise or prescribe a treatment for the "Sang grower" who 

 is troubled with dyspepsia or foul stomach, I would tell him to 

 'take some of your own medicine and don't be selling it all to the 

 Chinaman'." 



Ginseng is used in China and Japan as a medicine by their 

 doctors, and it is reported that in a certain case where our mission- 

 ary doctors asked to treat patients with American remedies, it 

 was agreed between them and the Chinese doctors that, in a cer- 

 tain hospital, an even number of fever cases should be treated by 

 our missionary doctors in American fashion, using quinine, etc., 

 and an equal number of cases be treated by the Chinese doctors 

 with ginseng. The final outcome was that the Chinese came out 

 ahead. 



From the author's ginseng library could be cited scores of 

 similar articles written by professional men who have given the 

 matter some study, but fearing that it will not interest the average 

 reader, we will drop the theme here. 



