Lot of people says that Maca is quite similar to Ging Seng, and even some of them call it Peruvian Ging Seng, but in fact Maca has its own properties at cheaper price, just as now it’s  been proven scientifically for investigators in different countries, being pointed out some of them:  

it reduces the stress as well acts as anti - depressive;  elevates the immunologist level; the fecundity increases in both sexes; it reduces the anemia; it works  as hormonal therapy; it gives bigger muscular mass; the libido increases; improves the physical and mental state;  reduces the formation of ovarian cysts; the spermatic flow increases; it regulates the menstrual cycle; it elevates the physical resistance; it reduces the osteoporosis (almost unknown in the Andean population); it diminishes the blushes and symptoms of the menopause, it doesn't increase weight, it energizes; it alleviates nuisances prostates; it combats the allergies; etc. In synthesis is a potent, natural and effective energized, anti stress and anti depressive, revitalized, and restorative,  or what is the same thing, is an authentic gift of God.  

From the antiquity the use or consumption of this divine plant required of a process or  treatment, starting from its direct desiccation to the sunbeams. Later on it’s crushed and boiled, then it can be ingested directly or cocktail with some other food, in reason of their peculiar, although not unpleasant, bitter flavor.