At age 79 years the mean systolic/diastolic blood pressure was 155/83 mm Hg in the men and 161/85 mm Hg in the women. In a longitudinal follow-up of reexamined subjects, there was an increase in systolic blood pressure levels up to age 75 years and a reduction in diastolic blood pressure after age 75 years in both sexes.
Ginger root Photo Credit Thinkstock Images/Stockbyte/Getty Images. Ginger root and ginseng root are not the same; ginger is a different plant than any of the types of ginseng root.Ginger is native to Asia, and is the underground stem of the Zingiber officinale plant.Ginseng root can refer to American ginseng, Panax quinquefolius; Asian ginseng, Panax ginseng; or Siberian ginseng, Eleutherococcus senticosus.inger root Photo Credit Thinkstock Images/Stockbyte/Getty Images. Ginger root and ginseng root are not the same; ginger is a different plant than any of the types of ginseng root.
There are three main species of ginseng, Oriental, Siberian and American. Oriental ginseng has been used in Traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years. Native Americans have likewise used American ginseng for all of their recorded history.riental ginseng (panax ginseng) is grown in both China and Korea. Red panax, as grown by the Koreans is the most popular form of ginseng. It gets its name from the processing of the root, which turns it red. White Oriental ginseng on the other hand is the ginseng root that has been allowed to dry naturally.