Noun:

जेनशेन, एक औषधोपयोगी पौधे की जड़ (यह पौधा चीन, नेपाल, कनाडा और पूर्वी अमरीका में पाया जाता है),

ginseng's Usage Examples:

Japanese cotton yarns are imported to be woven into a strong cloth on Korean hand-looms. Beans and peas, rice, cowhides, and ginseng are the chief exports, apart from gold.

Paper and ginseng are the only manufactured articles on the list of Korean exports.

The articles chiefly cultivated are rice, millet, beans, ginseng (at Songdo), cotton, hemp, oil-seeds, bearded wheat, oats, barley, sorghum, and sweet and Irish potatoes.

It possesses the stately remains of the palace of the Korean kings of the Wang dynasty, is a great centre of the grain trade and the sole centre of the ginseng manufacture, makes wooden shoes, coarse pottery and fine matting, and manufactures with sesamum oil the stout oiled paper for which Korea is famous.

Lockhart gives a graphic description of a visit to a ginseng merchant.

The account given by Koempfer of the preparation of nindsin, the root of Sium ninsi, in Korea, will give a good idea of the preparation of ginseng, ninsi being a similar drug of supposed weaker virtue, obtained from a different plant, and often confounded with ginseng.

The root of the wild plant is preferred to that of cultivated ginseng, and the older the plant the better is the quality of the root considered to be.

At one time the ginseng obtained from Manchuria was considered to be the finest quality, and in consequence became so scarce that an imperial edict was issued prohibiting its collection.

When the rice in the cover is sufficiently cooked, the medicine is ready, and is then eaten by the patient, who drinks the ginseng tea at the same time."

Ginseng is an important medicinal plant.

Synonyms:

nin-sin, Panax pseudoginseng, Panax schinseng, root, sang, Panax ginseng, American ginseng, Panax quinquefolius,

Antonyms:

destabilize, destabilise, descendant,