摘要
Ginseng is well-known traditional medicine especially in Asian countries.Ginseng was listed in 120 safety medicines of the Chinese book,Shennong’s Classic of Materia Medica(written in the Eastern Han Dynasty;25–220 C.E.).In Panax species several components like ginsenosides,triterpene saponins,polyacetylenes,polysaccharides,phenolics,alkaloids,lignans and peptides are contained^([1]).Yang et al.reviewed that 257 typical dammarane-type triterpenes,ginsenosides were isolated from Panax species and divided into protopanaxadiol and protopanaxatriol types having sugars attached to hydroxyl group at C-3 and C-20 or at C-6 and C-20,respectively^([2]).Ginsenoside Rc is a protopanaxadiol type ginsenoside such as a target compound taken up in the corresponding paper^([3]).
