Many pregnant women are ready to spend money
buying ginseng to foster babies when they are still fetuses.
With conception about valuable and rare
feature of ginseng, ginseng helps bear healthy, intelligent children and
children don’t have newborn diseases. Therefore, many pregnant women are ready
to buy ginseng to foster babies when they are still fetuses. Some pregnant
women are given experience to hold a little of ginseng, and this thing can help
labor become easier. Are fostering ways of pregnant women correct?
Although
ginseng has value in many kinds of disease, there aren’t clear evidences about
its effects.
Ginseng is a precious drug of Asian
traditional medicine, and at present, Western medicine begins to research it.
Ginseng has value in many kinds of disease: it can reduce blood pressure, blood
sugar to diabetes, reduce some symptoms of heart disease, improve resistance in
some cases of cancer, improve some symptoms of nerve and improve the function
of some organs in body… However, until now, there aren’t clear evidences about
this effect.
Until
now, there isn’t clear evidence about ginseng’s effect.
Safe and effective feature of ginseng in
cases of disease needs to be researched on animals and people. Food and Drug
Agency of USA (FDA) doesn’t acknowledge that ginseng has good effect on people.
In obstetrical field, people admit that
there is a remarkable number of Chinese pregnant women use ginseng (about 10%).
However, in 2003, according to a research of a university in Hong Kong, using Ginsenoside
Rb1 - one of the components of ginseng - can cause defect on mouse’s embryo.
When you use Ginsenoside Rb1 with
concentration 30 micrograms on mouse’s embryo that is 9 days old, unusual
things in heart, limb, development and movement of mouse’s embryo can appear.
With dose 50 micrograms, this ability is higher and there is also unusual thing
about height and development of muscle cell.
This research shows that ginseng has effect
in causing monster to mouse. Therefore, people must be careful to use,
especially in the first 3 months old pregnancy. People also observe and realize
improving about death ability of breast when mothers use ginseng in period of
giving babies the breast.
Pregnant
women need to be careful in using ginseng in the first 3 months of pregnancy.
Ginseng has effect that is similar to
estrogen. Therefore, to people that have high risk of breast cancer,
endometrial cancer, ginseng is more harmful than harmless. Clearly, it can
improve disease process of these cancer cases.