Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry
The Council has adopted the following report and authorized its publication.
W. A. Puckner, Secretary.
Seng (Sultan Drug Co., St. Louis) is called by the manufacturers:
“... a palatable preparation of Panax (Ginseng) in an aromatic vehicle.”
Regarding ginseng (Panax quinquefolia) the United States Dispensatory, nineteenth edition, page 1603, says:
“The extraordinary medicinal virtues formerly ascribed to ginseng had no other existence than in the imagination of the Chinese. It is little more than a demulcent, and in this country is not employed as a medicine.”
No discussion of ginseng is to be found in the more recently published books on pharmacology, materia medica and therapeutics, evidently because their authors agree with this estimate.
On the other hand, physicians are told through the medium of advertisements appearing in medical journals that Seng is: