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Panax Ginseng in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

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JOURNAL OF GINSENG RESEARCH
Volume 47, Issue 4, Pages 506-514

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KOREAN SOC GINSENG
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgr.2023.03.001

Keywords

Panax ginseng; Ginsenosides; Alzheimer's disease; Vascular dementia; Chinese medicine

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Panax ginseng, a traditional Chinese medicine, has been used for thousands of years to treat Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD). It contains multiple active components, such as ginsenosides, polysaccharides, amino acids, volatile oils, and polyacetylenes, which have therapeutic effects in treating AD and VaD. Clinical and basic investigations have confirmed the effectiveness of ginseng-containing Chinese medicine compounds in treating AD and VaD.
Dementia has become one of the most important diseases threatening human health. Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD) have the highest incidence rates among the types of dementia, but until now, therapeutic methods have been limited. Panax ginseng has been used in China for thousands of years to treat dementia, and modern medical studies have found that it contains multiple active components, such as ginsenosides, polysaccharides, amino acids, volatile oils and polyacetylenes, many of which have therapeutic effects in treating AD and VaD. Studies have found that ginsenosides have multitarget therapeutic effects in treating dementia, such as regulation of synaptic plasticity and the cholinergic system, inhibition of Ab aggravation and tau hyperphosphorylation, anti-neuroinflammation, anti-oxidation effects and anti-apoptosis effects. Other active components of Panax ginseng, such as gintonin, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides and ginseng proteins, also have therapeutic effects on AD and VaD. The effectiveness of ginseng-containing Chinese medicine compounds has also been confirmed by clinical and basic investigations in treating AD and VaD. In this review, we summarized the potential therapeutic effects and related mechanisms of Panax ginseng in treating AD and VaD to provide some examples for further studies.& COPY; 2023 The Korean Society of Ginseng. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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