- 1人蔘（藥局、補品常用寫法；也作人參。韓國的常叫高麗蔘，美國花旗蔘）
Ginseng is a plant whose slow-grown root is used as a tonic — a kind of medicine or health food that some people believe helps energy, stress, and staying well as they get older. You can buy the dried root, slices, tea, capsules, or chicken soup made with it. In English it covers several related plants: Asian ginseng, Korean ginseng, and American ginseng are the famous ones, and they are not treated as exactly the same. It is a real plant and a real trade; whether it “keeps you young” is what people hope, not what every doctor would promise. The word is ordinary in shops and Chinese medicine, a bit specialist elsewhere.
組成The English word does not split. It was borrowed from Hokkien 人參 (jîn-sim). Ninzin is a doublet of the same origin, but it is not a word English speakers use.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ginsengnoun/ˈd͡ʒɪnsɛŋ/
- 1
Any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius), having forked roots supposed to have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties.
- 2
The root of such a plant, or an extract of these roots.
- When the Afghan princes find it necessary to employ Chob-Chini, (the Jin-seng, or China root so celebrated as a purifier, tonic, and aphrodisiac) they choose the spring season.
- Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
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