Ninth Master Chang talked about the matter of the ginseng fruit, saying the side effects after consuming it vary from person to person; he knew of three people who had taken ginseng fruit.
The first turned into a zombie and gnawed the bones of an entire village before disappearing without a trace, and there had been no further reports of any villages suffering since then.
The second turned into an Old Yellow Ox on the spot and often ate people, eventually being captured and burned to death by several Taoists.
The third simply vanished on the spot after eating it, definitely not dead, but no one knew where he went, and there had been no word of him appearing again.
After hearing these three stories, I immediately dismissed the idea of using the ginseng fruit to save someone in the future; it would honestly be better to let that person die.