Adaptogens are natural and artificial substances that improve the ability to overcome the burden and are
harmless .
It is mainly medicinal plants and fungi (ie natural substances), but the development of artificial
substances meeting the definition of adaptogen is already intensely under way.
Not in
our country, but mainly in the West, where the terms of Russian origin do not like.
They are smart, and
therefore they use the term smart drugs . ("Superdrugs" would dangerously resemble Superman.) The concept of
adaptogen was created in the 1950s to describe herbal tonics whose typical representative is ginseng .
Before it was introduced, many plants were called "ginseng" (eleuterokok = Siberian
ginseng, vitans = Indian ginseng, Peruvian cress = Peruvian ginseng, Desert denim = Desert ginseng, see all what
is called ginseng ). These plants should be called adaptogen . Prior to the introduction of this concept,
European science was able only to create for the ginseng an unnamed Panax.