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Panax quinquefolius L.
Engl.: American ginseng, five fingers, ginseng, man's health, occidental ginseng, red berry, tartar root.
Deu.: Amerikanischer ginseng.
Fran.: ginseng d'Amérique.
Suom.: amerikkalainen ginseng, amerikan ginseng.
TCM: shang, xi yang shen.
Bot. syn.: Aralia quinquefolia Decne. & Planch.
Classic texts: Woodville 1790-1794.
Classic texts: Rafinesque 1828-1830.
Classic texts: Bigelow 1817-1821.
Classic texts: Scudder's Materia Medica, 1898: Tonics.
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Classic texts: USDisp 1918.
Classic texts: Sturtevant 1919.
Classic texts: Scudder 1870.
Classic texts: Sayre 1917.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: Harding 1936.
Classic texts: Felter 1922.
Classic texts: Ellingwood 1919.
Classic texts: Cook 1869.
Classic texts: Boericke 1901.
Archives: Best of the Herbal Forums: 06.1995.
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