The properties are bitter and cold. It enters the heart, liver, stomach, large intestine and bladder meridians.

Effects and Indications

1. Clearing heat and drying dampness for damp-heat jaundice, often used with gardenia, gentian grass, etc.; for damp-heat diarrhea, can be used with wood sorrel, licorice, such as fragrant ginseng pills; used for blood in the stool, can be used with rhizoma, such as bitter ginseng dihuang pills; such as with windproof charcoal, mustard charcoal, scutellaria charcoal, elm charcoal, etc., can be used to treat blood in stools, hemorrhoids and so on; used for the bandage of yellow viscous and itchy pubic, often with cypress, dahurica, serpentine, etc., often with cedar, and so on. It is often combined with cypress, dahurica, and snakebeds.

2. It can be used for scabies, often with alum, cypress, snakebeds, etc.; used for eczema, wet sores, itchy skin, with alum, cypress, white fresh skin, snakebeds, etc.; used for leprosy, can be used for pills, that is, the bitter ginseng pills.

3. Clearing heat and diuretic used for damp-heat, urine unfavorable, alone or with dandelion, stone Wei, etc.; used for pregnancy urine unfavorable, can be combined with angelica, mother of pearl, such as angelica, mother of pearl and bitter ginseng pill.

Recently, this product has been used with Angelica sinensis honey pill for a long time to treat seborrheic dermatitis, and it is also effective for functional arrhythmia when used alone in the form of decoctions, tablets, and injections.

Dosage and administration 3~10 grams, decoction with water, external use in appropriate amount.

ContraindicationsSpleen and stomach deficiency and cold are contraindicated. Anti-veratrum.

According to the bitter ginseng big bitter cold, for the pure yin products, sinking downward, in order to clear heat and dry dampness, but also can dispel wind, kill worms, and facilitate urination for the long. It is often used to treat hot dysentery, jaundice, hot lymph, red and white leucorrhea, etc. Its function of dispelling wind and killing worms is often used to treat itchy skin diseases.

Ginseng is used to replenish the spleen, ginseng is used to replenish the lungs, purple ginseng is used to replenish the liver, danshen is used to replenish the heart, and xuanshen is used to replenish the kidney, but bitter ginseng is not included in the list of five ginseng. Bitter ginseng is used for clearing dampness and heat, and bitter ginseng charcoal is used for stopping bleeding.

Bitter ginseng is similar to cypress and gentian herb, but the bitter ginseng is more bitter and its dryness is especially strong, drying dampness and killing worms are its strengths, and it is good at treating itchy skin and vaginal trichomonas.

Bitter ginseng is similar to Huanglian in efficacy, but Huanglian is on the way up to remove the king's fire; bitter ginseng is on the way down to remove the phase fire.