Red Ginseng and Improved Mini-Mental State Examination Score

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  • 2026-01
  • Review
  • Molecular neurobiology 63(1)
  • • Ghaleb Oriquat
    • Afaq Mahdi Ali
    • Malathi H
    • Israa Abdulhameed Ahmad
    • Laxmidhar Maharana
    • Laxmidhar Maharana
    • Ashish Singh Chauhan
    • Vimal Arora
    • Bilakshan Purohit
    • Manoj Kumar-Mishra

  • PubMed: 42141250
  • DOI: 10.1007/s12035-026-05910-z

  3 Insights on

  • Improved Mini-Mental State Examination Score

  • Low evidence

  Limited clinical evidence from small open-label trials of Korean Red Ginseng suggests cognitive improvements (e.g., in ADAS-cog and MMSE scores), with good tolerability.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes