Study On Effect Of Rusty-root Symptoms On Ginseng Quality

Ginseng(Panax ginseng C.A.Mey), was perennial herb Araliaceae Panax plants. Ginseng Belongs to the tonic herbs is widely used clinically, containing many kinds of chemical constituents, and it has many kinds of pharmacological action. Ginseng is one of the commonly used traditional Chinese medicine.The researching on its pharmacological activity related to better clinic application. Ginseng rusty root is deemed to one of the ginseng diseases seriously affect the quality, but ginseng rusty root could effect on ginseng component contents was unknown. The article evaluated that the ginseng rusty root effect on the ginseng saponin, polysaccharide, protein, content of essential oil and trace elements, the results are as follows:(1) the saponins content in different age healthy ginseng and ginseng with erythroderma were analyzed, the results show that, the dry ginseng saponin content products are 22.89mg/g, 20.76mg/g 6 years old suffering from red ginseng and health of patients, and the same year health and sick ginseng ginseng saponin content of fresh products are 8.07mg/g, 7.72mg/g, ginsenoside content also decreases with decreasing of cultivation years; ginseng with erythroderma may have some effects on the ginsenoside, but the gap is not, so we can think that ginseng is suffering from erythroderma does not exist a great impact on the quality of ginseng;(2) polysaccharide content of rusty root ginseng and health ginseng were measured, found that the polysaccharide content of rusty root ginseng was decreased, it may be due to rusty root consumpt polysaccharide;(3) protein content of rusty root ginseng and health ginseng were measured, the result showed that the protein content of rusty root ginseng had no significant with that of the health ginseng, indicating that rusty root ginseng has no effect on the protein content;(4) Fe, Al and Mn content of the periderm, epidermis, rhizome, root marrow of rusty root ginseng and healthy ginseng were determined respectively, the results show that Fe, Al content of rusty root ginseng is higher that of the healty ginseng.(5) the chemical constituents of the essential oil of fresh and dry rusty root giseng with GC-MS were analysed, the essential oil include include aldehydes, heterocyclic compounds, sesquiterpene compounds, fatty acid and fatty acid esters and fatty hydrocarbon compounds. Among them, ginseng linoleic acid content that is main active component in healthy fresh ginseng was 32.81%, followed by the health dry ginseng is 26.49%, while the content of linoleic acid of fresh rusty root ginseng is 23.5%, the content of linoleic acid of dry rusty root ginseng is 25.72%; linolenic acid is the another effective component, content linolenic acid of the health fresh ginseng was 2.94% that of rusty root fresh ginseng is 0.57%; the linolenic acid composition have not been detected in heahlty dry ginseng, but the linolenic acid of the rusty root dry ginseng is 0.35%.(6) In addition, falcarinol that has anticancer effect has been detected in rusty root ginseng. In short, volatile oil components have some differences between healty ginseng and rusty root ginseng, but the difference was not significant. In terms of quality, there is no difference between Rusty root ginseng and healty ginseng.