Red Ginseng and Increased CD4+ T Cell Count

• Immune-modulating Effect of Korean Red Ginseng by Balancing the Ratio of Peripheral T Lymphocytes in Bile Duct or Pancreatic Cancer Patients With Adjuvant Chemotherapy.

  • 2021
  • RCT
  • In vivo (Athens, Greece) 35(3)
  • • Im-Kyung Kim
    • Kang Young Lee
    • Jeonghyun Kang
    • Joon Seong Park
    • Joon Jeong

  • PubMed: 33910879
  • DOI: 10.21873/invivo.12454

  4 Insights on

  • Increased CD4+ T Cell Count

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  After chemotherapy, the percentage of CD4+ T lymphocytes was significantly higher in the ginseng group than in the control group (42.01% vs. 33.69%, p=0.048).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  daily (dose not specified in abstract)