Ginseng and Herbal Tonics
Nearly every culture around the world has developed a natural medical system, most including some variety of herbal medicines. Some of these traditional medical systems include a level of sophistication that is incredible. Ayurveda, Japanese Kanpo, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and others developed many herbal formulae to address a wide variety of disease and injuries. Many of these formulae are quite complex with twenty or more ingredients.
In most traditional cultures another herbal system also developed, alongside medicinal herbalism. This is the system called Tonic Herbalism.