Medicinal value
Sexual taste
Cool, sweet and slightly bitter.
Functional indication
Supplementing qi and nourishing yin, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production. It can be used for treating qi deficiency and yin deficiency, cough due to internal heat, asthma, excessive phlegm and little blood, asthenia due to deficiency heat, thirst, dry mouth and throat. The dosage is 3-6g. Benefiting lung and nourishing yin, clearing deficiency fire, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Treat lung deficiency, chronic cough, blood loss, dry throat, thirst, asthenic fever and fatigue. [ 1]
proved recipe
1. Fever can damage yin, quench thirst, dry mouth and throat: compatible with Dendrobium, Ophiopogon japonicus and Adenophora adenophora.
2, yin deficiency and blood deficiency, physical weakness: use angelica, rehmannia glutinosa, white peony root, red peony root.
3. Unilateral (journal of traditional chinese medicine, Shanghai, 1979, (4): 29): Indications: Patients with tumors (such as nasopharyngeal carcinoma) have adverse reactions such as dry throat, nausea, emaciation, loss of appetite and leukopenia during radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Take 3 ~ 9g of American ginseng every day and decoct it in water. From 2 weeks before radiotherapy to the end of radiotherapy. In the prescription, American ginseng can replenish qi and nourish yin, promote fluid production and quench thirst. [ 1]
4. Unilateral prescription (Guangdong drug standard): Indications: cough due to lung deficiency, dry mouth, hot flashes and night sweats, dizziness due to kidney deficiency, anemia due to liver deficiency, deficiency of middle qi, weakness of spleen and stomach, etc. Take 500g of American ginseng, grind it into fine powder, put it into hard capsules, and make it into 1000 capsules, each with 0.5g, take 2 capsules each time, twice a day. Don't eat radish while taking the medicine. In the prescription, American ginseng is nourishing and strong, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production. [ 1]
Health care value
Enhance the function of the central nervous system
Saponins in American ginseng can effectively strengthen the central nervous system, achieve the effects of meditation, eliminating fatigue and enhancing memory, and can be used for insomnia, irritability, hypomnesia and Alzheimer's disease.
Taking American ginseng regularly can resist arrhythmia, myocardial ischemia, myocardial oxidation and enhance myocardial contractility. Patients with coronary heart disease have symptoms of deficiency of both qi and yin, palpitation and shortness of breath, and can take American ginseng for a long time, with remarkable curative effect. The function of American ginseng is that it can regulate blood pressure, effectively reduce temporary and persistent blood pressure, and contribute to the recovery of hypertension, arrhythmia, coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, cerebral thrombosis and other diseases.
improve immunity
American ginseng, as the first choice for invigorating qi and health care, can promote the synthesis of serum protein, bone marrow protein and organ protein, improve the body's immunity, inhibit the growth of cancer cells and effectively fight cancer.
Promote blood vitality
Taking American ginseng for a long time can reduce blood coagulation, inhibit platelet aggregation, resist atherosclerosis, promote the growth of red blood cells and increase hemoglobin.
Treat diabetes
Panax quinquefolium can lower blood sugar, regulate insulin secretion, promote sugar metabolism and fat metabolism, and has a certain auxiliary effect on treating diabetes.
Tonifying lung and reducing fire, nourishing stomach and promoting fluid production
American ginseng is cold, bitter and slightly sweet. Entering the heart, lung and kidney meridians, it has the effects of nourishing lung and reducing fire, nourishing stomach and promoting fluid production.