It has been known that ethyl acetate fraction and petroleum ether fraction prepared from ginseng are inhibitory to the L5178Y and sarcoma 180 cell at the concentrations o! 0.Imgfml or 0.2mg/ml. The shiny was carried out to examine effects of the two fractions on the activities of RNA polymerase, succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and malate dehydrogenase (MDH) present in normal rabbit liver. The ethyl acetate fraction did not show any inhibitory effect on the RNA polymerase and SDH activity at the concentrations of 0.Imgfml and 0.2mglml, but inhibited malate dehydrogenase activity by 12.3% and 15.5%, at the same concentrations, respectively. The fraction also inhibited all the three enzymes at higher concentrations tested, but stimulated the succinate dehydrogenase activity at 0.024mg/ml to increase the enzyme activity by 14.6%. The petroleum ether fraction activated the SDH activity by 12.9% and 20.8%, at the concentration of 0.1mg/ml and 0.2mg/ml respectively. But the fraction did not affect the MDH activity at the same concentration. The fraction, however, inhibited the MDH activity and activated the SDH activity by 13.5% and 18.2%, at the concentration of 0.8mg/ml respectively.