人参(Panax ginseng C.A.Meyer)自古以来就系我国的名贵药材,它在防治疾病中的应用已有数千年历史。然而,人们把它用于抗放方面的时间还不到30年。六十年代初叶,苏联学者首次报告了人参对实验性放射病的治疗研究。尔后,朝鲜、日本及我国等在这方面亦进行了研究。而且这些研究正不断地深入和逐渐地增多。特别是近年来,国内外还从分子水平对人参的成分、药理及临床等进行了 Ginseng (Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer) has been a valuable medicinal material in China since ancient times. It has been used for thousands of years in the prevention and treatment of diseases. However, it was less than 30 years before people used it for resistance. In the early 1960s, Soviet scholars reported for the first time the treatment of experimental radiation sickness by ginseng. Later, North Korea, Japan, and China also conducted research in this area. And these studies are constantly deepening and gradually increasing. In particular, in recent years, domestic and foreign countries have also conducted ginseng ingredients, pharmacology, and clinical procedures at the molecular level.