**1. Introduction**

About 3.3 billion people in communities of less developed and even developed countries employ medicinal plants for the treatment and prevention of various diseases in their daily routine. Medicinal plant can be defined as the plant which contains metabolites that can be utilized for therapeutic indications or can be utilized for the synthesis of synthetic drugs. These plants are used in the indigenous system of medicine having no sufficient scientific predictions to confirm their therapeutic efficacy. Every medicinal plant consists of a variety of constituents that are involved in the synthesis and development of new and different kinds of the drug in the medicinal field.

Over 2000 years, China, Korea, and Siberia are major countries where ginseng was used as traditional medicine and commercial cultivation on a minor scale was in Germany, France, Holland, and England. the word ginseng i.e. Jen Sheng is originated from a Chinese word meaning 'man-herb' whereas the word Panax means 'all heal' in Greek which is a powerful plant that can all and any type of disease. **Figure 1** showing Ginseng a man root. It is commonly named as 'man root' due to the likeness of a man showing pharmacological uses of the whole body. In 1596, the Compendium of Materia Medica founded by Li Shizen discussed Ginseng as a "superior tonic" as compared to other herbal remedies. The usage of ginseng

is worldwide which is entitled as the most popular herbal remedy. It belongs to the genus Panax, the various species include *Panax quinquefolius*, *Panax ginseng*, and *Panax notoginseng* where their common names are American ginseng, Korean ginseng, and South China ginseng. The other species include *Panax japonicas*, *Panax vietnamensis*, *Panax pseudoginseng* All the species are regarded as wild where *Panax ginseng* is mostly cultivated.
