Word: ginseng
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...aches of premenstrual syndrome. They're like 19th century elixirs, but with a difference. In the popular bottler Glaceau's various brands, for instance, you will find such legit ingredients as vitamins, minerals, electrolytes and soy. But the drinks also contain a variety of supposedly health-boosting herbals--including ginseng, Ginkgo biloba, gotu kola, guarana and echinacea--that the FDA has never approved for consumption as food. Are they present in sufficient quantity to have any effect? Nutritionists can't say for sure. But there's at least one good thing about drinking a glass of designer water. It will...
HERBS IN THE O.R. Taking garlic pills? St. John's wort? Ginseng? Stop if you're scheduled to have surgery next week. A new study urges that six common herbal preparations, used by up to one-third of surgical patients, be halted well before surgery to reduce the risk of complication, including stroke and bleeding...
...substances whose quantity and quality are notoriously difficult to control to their snacks or beverages would quickly founder. Instead the exact opposite is true. In the U.S. last year, according to the market-research firm Frost and Sullivan, consumers bought $700 million of drinks spiked with echinacea, ginseng and other herbs. That's up from $20 million just four years...
Neither can consumers, who suddenly face an astonishing variety of Tibetan products, mostly from Chinese state-run companies. Last year's new goodies included Tibet Grass brand ginseng-berry juice, a sorghum liquor called Tibet Fragrant Spring and Tibetan Highland barley wine. "Chinese like our drink because of Tibet's mysterious feelings," says Zai Shudong, who bought ads on national TV for his company's sorghum brew. Trendies in Shanghai can shop for Tibetan jewelry at boutiques just off the glitziest commercial street. At the Traditional Tibetan Medicine Hospital in Beijing, director Renwang Ciren spent a recent morning tending...
...posed for photos with their pet python. It was curled up miserably in a basin with its mouth taped shut. Next to them were two more girls with a peacock. Downstairs at the entrance, shops offered a narrow but highly popular selection of souvenirs: jade bracelets, packets of ginseng and hard-core pornographic VCDs...