Ginseng, a Chinese herbal medicine?

We heard about ginseng a long time ago. What is it like and what is its value? The following is what I arranged for you, hoping to help you.

Ginseng is

We heard about ginseng a long time ago. What is it like and what is its value? The following is what I arranged for you, hoping to help you.

Ginseng is a perennial herb, which likes to grow in the shade, and its leaves have no stomata and palisade tissue, so it can't retain water. When the temperature is higher than 32 degrees, the blades will burn, and the canopy density is 0.7-0.8. It usually blooms in 3 years and bears fruit in 5-6 years. The flowering period is from May to June, and the fruiting period is from June to September. It grows under mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests or deciduous broad-leaved forests dominated by Korean pine, and is distributed in northeast China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and eastern Russia. Ginseng, also known as the king of Huangshen, Goblin, Shencao and Baicao, is one of the famous "Three Treasures in Northeast China".

morphological character

Ginseng is a perennial herb. Ginseng taproot is 30-60 cm high, plump, fleshy, yellow-white, cylindrical or spindle-shaped, slightly branched below. Rootstock Reed is short and erect. Ginseng compound leaves are palmately shaped, with 3-5 leaflets, and the middle 3 leaflets are similar in size and have petioles; Leaflets are elliptic or slightly obovate, 4- 15 cm long and 2-6.5 cm wide, with tapered tips, wedge-shaped bases and serrated edges. There are a few bristles scattered on the upper vein, and the lower part is hairless. The bottom 1 pair of leaflets is very small and has no petiole. Ginseng blossoms in summer. In a single terminal leaf cluster of umbel, the total pedicel is 30 cm long, each inflorescence has 4-40 flowers, and the small pedicel is about 0.5 cm long.

economic value

Beauty ginseng has been known as the "king of herbs" since ancient times, and it is a good product for nourishing yin and benefiting qi and strengthening the body resistance. It contains many kinds of glycosides and polysaccharides. The leaching solution can be slowly absorbed by the panel without adverse effects. It can dilate the capillaries of the panel, promote the blood circulation of the panel, increase the nutrition of the panel, adjust the water-oil balance of the panel, prevent the panel from dehydration, hardening and wrinkling, and inhibit the reduction efficiency of ginseng active substances on melanin. Soak ginseng directly in 50% glycerin, and wipe your face with glycerin after 10, or fry ginseng into thick juice, pour a little face wash water every day, and wipe your face with glycerin or ginseng water containing ginseng, which can make the panel quite moist.

The fleshy root of medicinal ginseng is a famous tonic, which is suitable for regulating blood pressure, restoring heart function, neurasthenia and physical weakness, and also has the functions of eliminating phlegm, invigorating stomach, diuresis and excitement.

Nature and taste: sweet, slightly bitter, warm and flat. Return to spleen, lung meridian and heart meridian. Benefiting qi, strengthening the body, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, calming the nerves and improving intelligence.

Indications: weak body, cold limbs, slight pulse, anorexia due to spleen deficiency, asthma and cough due to lung deficiency, thirst caused by body fluid, thirst quenching due to internal heat, chronic illness of palpitation and insomnia, impotence and palace cold; Heart failure and cardiogenic shock are used for shortness of breath, palpitation, forgetfulness, thirst, hyperhidrosis, lack of food and weakness, all acute and chronic diseases and shock and collapse caused by blood loss. Nourish vitality, remove body fluid and soothe the nerves. Can be used for treating fatigue, fatigue, anorexia, lassitude, nausea and vomiting, loose stool, cough and asthma, spontaneous sweating, fright, amnesia, dizziness, headache, impotence, frequent urination, diabetes, metrorrhagia, metrorrhagia, chronic weakness, and deficiency of qi, blood and body fluid.