What are the rules for digging ginseng? Come to listen to the old ginseng farmers!

As we all know, ginseng in our country has a long history of application, but also formed a unique and rich ginseng culture, as the saying goes, each industry has its own doorway. Modern ginseng is a lot of artificial culture, basically nothing too much doorway, but for the old generation of ginseng diggers, digging ginseng is still a lot of doorway, the following to listen to the old ginseng farmers for you to talk about the doorway of digging ginseng.

The mountain digging ginseng, called "put the mountain", also called "pick treasure". Once upon a time, the Jingpo mountainous area of the "mountain" people, generally ganged up, picking ginseng, each person spaced about three meters apart, lined up in a horizontal line, with a "rope dialing stick" pulling the bushes, carefully looking for. When someone found ginseng, he immediately shouted, "Mallet!" The partners immediately responded, "Quickly, Dang!" Then, they quickly ran over to the ginseng stem with a red line with copper wire at both ends, then, shoveling away the surrounding weeds, digging out the soil with a wooden tool, and then using a bamboo stick to slowly remove the remaining soil from the roots and whiskers, and digging to a depth of more than three feet in order to hold out a complete ginseng.

The environment and the years of growth of ginseng have made ginseng precious. How to dig out the precious ginseng and retain its medicinal value depends on the skill of the diggers.

Ginseng is known as the "king of herbs", has a high medicinal value, in the classification of traditional Chinese medicine, categorized as "tonic medicine".

It should be noted that ginseng, as a good medicine and tonic, should not be abused. Chinese medicine says that "deficiency is a tonic", that is to say, there is no deficiency, it is not recommended to take ginseng and its products for a long period of time, or else it may cause blood pressure, palpitations, insomnia, diarrhea and other adverse reactions.

Ginseng contains saponins, sugars, organic acids, volatile oils, enzymes, proteins, sterols and other components. The main active ingredients are ginsenoside and ginsenoside polysaccharide, among which, the content of ginsenoside is 2%-12%, and the content of ginsenoside is higher than that of the main root in the branched root and fibrous root. Ginsenoside is the main index for assessing the quality of ginseng.

But it should be noted that after eating ginsenosides ultimately need to be converted into ginsenoside Rh2, a monosaccharide in order to function. But the content of monosaccharide ginsenoside Rh2 in ginseng is only one hundred thousandth, if the content of ginsenoside in ginseng is 10%, then the monosaccharide ginsenoside Rh2 is only one ten thousandth of the total saponin. So this amount is far from being able to satisfy the absorption of human body. So people continue to improve the content of ginsenoside Rh2, in anticipation of allowing ginseng to play more medicinal value.