The investigation was based on a study of 282 people who had cancer of the breast, colon, and other types, after eight weeks of assigned randomly dose of ginseng (ranging from 750 to 2000 milligrams per day), the 25 percent of the people, with the highest dose reported that its fatigue was moderately improved.

They also reported improvements in his mental state, physical, emotional and general welfare, while only 10 percent with the lower dose or a placebo reported any improvement in your energy level or general feeling of well-being.

While this is a small test, with the type of ginseng American Wisconsin is initiative of the researchers to promote a study much broader, to be carried out during this year 2008.

Confirming the positive effects that has the ginseng on the mental and physical fatigue, this welfare would translate into an alternative enormously beneficial to the education and the traditional medicine, for the restoration of convalescences in general, in particular for those treatments that affect the decline of the organic defenses, motivating directly the states of fatigue, which can become chronic, to the extent of prolonged excessively in the time.

Currently, doctors recommend a regimen of exercise to combat fatigue and many cancer patients are clinging to the ginseng as a hope and to the free marketing of the same as part of a variety more than the wide range of herbs used in one of the medicines oldest in the world, the Traditional Chinese Medicine.