“…Siberian ginseng, Eleutherococcus senticosus) belongs to the family Araliaceae and is a 1.5-2.6 m high shrub found in China, Korea, Japan and Russian. In China and Russian, the root bark extract of this herb has been known for thousands of years as a remedy for psychophysical stress or fatigue (Brekhman and Dardymov, 1969;Brekhman and Kirillov, 1969;Dowling et al, 1996). The roots and stems of A. senticosus have been also used to treat chronic diseases, such as chronic renal failure, rheumatics, diabetes mellitus, chronic bronchitis, hypertension, gastric ulcer and ischemic heart diseases (Nishibe et al, 1990;Fujikawa et al, 1996;Davydov and Krikorian, 2000).…”