Korean Red Ginseng has been used as a traditional oriental medicine to treat illness and to promote health for several thousand years in Eastern Asia. It is widely accepted that ginseng saponins, ginsenosides, are major active ingredients for Red ginseng’s therapeutic activity against many kinds of illness. Although crude saponin fraction (CSF) displayed anti-platelet activity, the molecular mechanism of its action remains to be elucidated.

Panax ginseng is a well-known economic medical plant which is broadly used in Chinese traditional medicine. This species contains unique class of natural products, namely ginsenosides. Recent clinical and experimental studies lined a plethora of evidences up for the promising role of ginsenosides on different diseases including neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, certain types of cancer, etc. Nowadays, much attention has been paid to ginsenoside Rd as neuroprotective agent to attenuate ischemic stroke damages.