西洋参为名贵中药 ,原产北美洲。我国自 70年代末成功引种并大面积栽培 ,解决了国内和东南亚地区西洋参供不应求问题 ,同时也提出了大量的西洋参地上部资源的开发利用的新课题。化学和药理、药效学等基础研究的不足制约了西洋参地上部的利用 ,近年来 ,国内专家、学者已致力于解 American ginseng is a rare Chinese medicine native to North America. China has successfully introduced and cultivated a large area since the late 1970s, which solved the problem of the shortage of American ginseng in domestic and Southeast Asian regions. At the same time, it also proposed a large number of new topics for the development and utilization of American ginseng aboveground resources. The insufficiency of basic research such as chemistry, pharmacology, and pharmacodynamics has restricted the use of the American ginseng ground. In recent years, domestic experts and scholars have devoted themselves to solving problems.