BloomWellYes, the morning blend lists Ginseng Root, per the maker. NCCIH names insomnia as Asian ginseng's most common side effect, so the timing of that cup matters.
The short answer first. The maker's own ingredient list for the morning blend includes Ginseng Root, alongside green tea, oolong tea, orange peel, lemongrass, ginger, dandelion leaf, garcinia cambogia, monk fruit, and natural mint and lemon flavor. So the premise of the question is correct. Ginseng is there.
The evening blend is a different formula entirely. Its listed ingredients are senna leaves, licorice root, peppermint, fennel fruit, orange peel, cinnamon bark, dandelion, lemongrass, ginger and monk fruit. No ginseng, and no tea leaf. That split matters, because the two cups you drink in a day are not carrying the same stimulant load.
Worth knowing before we go further. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, part of the NIH, states plainly that insomnia is Asian ginseng's most common side effect. That is not a fringe warning buried in a footnote. It is the first item the federal agency lists under side effects.
The honest answer is that the evidence points in two directions at once, and neither direction is strong. On one side, insomnia is the reported side effect, per NCCIH. On the other, a small randomized trial of Korean red ginseng found a tendency toward more deep sleep, not less.
That trial deserves its numbers. Twenty healthy young men were randomized to red ginseng or placebo for two weeks at 4,500 mg daily, with polysomnography at baseline and at the end. Fifteen completed the recordings. Stage 3 sleep rose and stage 2 fell, but neither reached statistical significance, at p values of 0.087 and 0.071.
Zoom out and the gap becomes clearer. A 2012 systematic review in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine screened 414 studies and included 67 randomized trials of Panax ginseng. The conditions studied ran from psychomotor performance to diabetes to menopausal symptoms. Sleep and insomnia were not among the categories studied at all.
“The ginseng question has a clear factual answer and a murkier practical one. It is in the morning blend, and the caffeine sitting beside it is better studied than the herb itself.”
Here is the part that often gets missed in the ginseng conversation. The morning blend leads with green tea and oolong tea, and both are true tea leaf, which means both carry caffeine. If your evening feels wired, the herb at the end of the ingredient list may not be the main character in that story.
NCCIH notes that tea contains alkaloids including caffeine, theophylline and theobromine, and that green tea is a source of caffeine. The agency does not publish a milligram figure per cup, and honest reporting means saying so rather than borrowing a number from a blog. The steep time and leaf quantity move it anyway.
What is well measured is the clock. A 2013 trial in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine gave 400 mg of caffeine at zero, three and six hours before bed. Even the six-hour dose cut objectively measured total sleep time by more than an hour, versus placebo. Distance from bedtime was the variable that mattered.
"Insomnia is the most commonly reported side effect of Asian ginseng, and short-term oral use up to six months in recommended amounts appears safe for most people, while long-term safety remains uncertain."
For most people asking this question, timing is the practical lever. The maker positions the ginseng blend as the morning cup, and the caffeine-free herbal blend as the evening cup. Followed as written, the stimulant side of the product sits many hours away from your pillow rather than near it.
The Drake trial gives that arrangement its logic. Caffeine six hours before bed still measurably shortened sleep, which is why sleep hygiene guidance draws the line at roughly six hours. A cup taken at breakfast clears that line comfortably. A cup taken at four in the afternoon does not, no matter what the label calls it.
So the risk is not evenly distributed across everyone who drinks it. It concentrates in a specific habit, which is drinking the morning blend late, or drinking it twice because the first cup did not feel like enough. Those are the patterns worth watching if your sleep is already fragile.
Some readers should treat this with more caution than a timing tweak can cover. NCCIH says short-term oral use of Asian ginseng, up to six months, appears safe for most people in recommended amounts, while long-term safety remains a question. It also advises against use in pregnancy and while breastfeeding.
The interaction list deserves the same attention. The same agency notes that Asian ginseng might interact with certain medications and recommends discussing it with a health care provider. If you already take something for blood pressure, blood sugar, mood or clotting, that conversation is the step that comes before any new daily tea.
And if you already sleep poorly, be your own control group. A herb whose most commonly reported side effect is insomnia is not a neutral addition to an already broken night. Watching what happens over a week, and stopping if the nights get worse, is more informative than any general claim about how the herb behaves.
BloomWell did not create this tea and makes no health claims about it. All Day Slimming Tea is a third-party maker's product, and every claim about what it does belongs to that maker. What we can do is read the published ingredient list next to what federal health sources and published trials actually say.
On that reading, the ginseng question has a clear factual answer and a murkier practical one. It is in the morning blend. Its most commonly reported side effect is trouble sleeping. The trial evidence for its effect on sleep is thin in both directions, and the caffeine sitting beside it is better studied than the herb itself.
If you want the maker's own framing of the morning and evening blends, that belongs on their page rather than ours. Read the maker's full ingredient explanation and weigh it against what you just read here. Bring the whole picture to your own doctor if sleep is the thing you are trying to protect.
Free to read · The maker's claims and terms are on their official page
Insomnia is Asian ginseng's most common side effect, per the NIH's complementary health center. Trial evidence on how it changes sleep stages remains thin. [1]
The maker lists Ginseng Root in the morning blend, not in the evening one.
NCCIH names trouble sleeping as Asian ginseng's most common side effect.
Green and oolong tea lead the same blend, and both are caffeinated leaf.
| Ingredient | Blend | Caffeine | Sleep note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ginseng rootPanax ginseng | Morning | None | Insomnia reported, per NCCIH |
| Green teaCamellia sinensis | Morning | Yes | True tea leaf, caffeinated |
| Oolong teaCamellia sinensis | Morning | Yes | True tea leaf, caffeinated |
| PeppermintMentha piperita | Evening | None | Herbal, no tea leaf listed |
Yes. The maker's ingredient list for the morning blend includes Ginseng Root, along with green tea, oolong tea, orange peel, lemongrass, ginger, dandelion leaf, garcinia cambogia and monk fruit.
NCCIH, part of the NIH, states that insomnia is Asian ginseng's most common side effect. Trial evidence on ginseng and sleep is limited and points both ways. Ask your doctor if you sleep poorly.
No. The evening blend lists senna leaves, licorice root, peppermint, fennel, orange peel, cinnamon bark, dandelion, lemongrass, ginger and monk fruit. No ginseng and no tea leaf are listed in it.
A 2013 Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine trial found caffeine six hours before bed still cut total sleep time by over an hour. Sleep hygiene guidance uses roughly that six-hour distance.
No. BloomWell is an editorial brand, not a medical provider. Nothing here diagnoses, treats, cures, or prevents any condition. Talk with your own doctor about sleep and any supplement you take.
Every figure we have published on menopause bloating, with its source, is gathered in The numbers on menopause bloating.
The maker prices the two blends together in multi-month bundles on their page.
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