Efficacy of American ginseng: it has the functions of benefiting qi and nourishing yin, promoting fluid production and nourishing heart, benefiting lung and nourishing kidney, clearing away heat and relieving annoyance.
Efficacy of ginseng: it has the functions of benefiting qi, removing blood stasis, restoring yang, promoting fluid production, improving intelligence and calming the nerves.
Reason:
1, medicinal taste and properties: in terms of medicinal taste, American ginseng is bitter and sweet, and ginseng is bitter and sweet; As far as medicinal properties are concerned, American ginseng is cool and ginseng is slightly warm.
2. Ginseng is warm and bitter. Warming can tonify yang and dispel cold, suffering can dry dampness, and dampness can hurt yang. Therefore, dryness and dampness also contribute to yang. American ginseng is cool, cool can clear away heat, and sweet and cool can be used together, which can not only clear away heat and nourish yin, but also promote fluid production and quench thirst. Ginseng helps qi and yang; American ginseng nourishes qi and yin. Ginseng is better than American ginseng in invigorating qi, and American ginseng is better than ginseng in clearing heat and promoting fluid production.
Precautions: People with deficiency-cold constitution and qi deficiency syndrome should choose ginseng. Ginseng can not only invigorate qi, but also warm yang. People with yin deficiency constitution, when suffering from qi deficiency syndrome, had better use American ginseng, because American ginseng can not only replenish qi, but also nourish yin.