Pinyin name Ren Shēn Xū
The source is the fine branch root and fibrous root of Panax ginseng of Araliaceae.
character
Due to different processing methods, the products include red straight beard, white straight beard, red curved beard and white curved beard.
1 red straight beard
It is a thick thin branch root. Generally, it is over10cm long, and it is brownish red. There are longitudinal wrinkles and fibrous root peeling marks on the body surface, and a few have cork peeling phenomenon. The cross section is brownish red, flat and round, and the edge is bent into waves. Hard and brittle. The smell is sweet and the taste is bitter.
2 white straight beard
It is a thick and long branch root. The character is the same as red straight beard, but the surface is yellow and white. Most have no skin. The section is white.
3 red curved beard
It is a reddish brown thin branch root and fibrous root with different lengths and thicknesses. Crispy and bitter.
4 white curved beard
Mostly fibrous roots, often grouped into cakes. Yellow and white, with the same characteristics as red curved beard.
Sexual taste
Sweet and bitter, flat.
1 "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": It tastes bitter.
2 "Herbal Reading": Gan, Ping.
Returning to the meridian "Materia Medica Rejuvenation": Entering the lung meridian.
Functions: benefiting qi, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Treat cough, hematemesis, thirst, stomach deficiency and vomiting.
1 Ben Jing Feng Yuan: Treating stomach deficiency, vomiting, cough and blood loss.
2 "Materia Medica from the New": promoting fluid production and invigorating qi.
3 "Materia Medica Justice": Produces body fluid to quench thirst, and subdues yang to reduce fire.
Administration and dosage: decoction,1~ 3 RMB.
Excerpt from * Dictionary