Radix Codonopsis, also known as Crotalaria, belongs to Umbelliferae and Crotalaria.

1. Roots

Roots are cylindrical, slender, and their necks are not forked.

2. Stems

The stems are thin, erect, with narrow grooves, slightly rough and sparse hairs. The fruit period is nearly smooth, blue-green, branched from the upper part, with alternate or opposite lower branches and whorled upper branches.

3. Leaves

Cauline leaves and lower leaves of the stem have short stalks, and the base of the stalk expands into a sheath, and the leaf sheath is lanceolate and clings to the stem; The outline of the leaf blade is broadly ovoid, with three pinnate parts, the last lobe is linear, entire, sparsely 3-lobed, and the tip is tapered, 15-5 mm long and 1.5-3 mm wide; Cauline leaves are simplified upward, with few leaves, and leaf sheaths are ovate-lanceolate or ovate.

4. Flowers

Compound umbels are born at the top of stems and branches, with a diameter of 5-15 cm, sometimes spherical, with 5-2 umbels; No involucral bracts; Umbellies are flowery, nearly sessile, and densely head-shaped; Bracteoles ovate or ovate-lanceolate, hairy outside, ciliated at the edge, 2 mm long, persistent.

Its calyx teeth are short and sharp; Petals pale green, broadly ovate, pubescent outside; Ovary and young fruit are sparsely hirsute.

5. Fruit

The meristem is oval, with a flat dorsal abdomen, 16 mm in length and 8 mm in width, and the dorsal edge is filiform, and the lateral edges are broad-winged and protruding, with oil pipes in each groove, and the oil pipes in the joint surface.

Radix Codonopsis is an artificially planted ginseng. Although it is not as effective as authentic ginseng, it is also more nutritious than ordinary food and can nourish the body.

Extended information:

People who eat ginseng are not suitable

1. People with severe allergies, people who are allergic to many foods, can't take it once they have a rash after eating, and can't take it when there is suppurative inflammation, otherwise it is likely to aggravate the symptoms.

2. These people can't eat ginseng because of asthma caused by sudden suffocation or dry throat caused by hot and dry, and they can't eat ginseng because of sudden vomiting of blood or epistaxis.

3. People with influenza should not take ginseng, and people with fever should not take ginseng. Fever may cause severe palpitations, so taking ginseng at this time will improve blood circulation, make palpitations more serious and even aggravate the condition.

4. The edema caused by damp-heat stagnation will be worse if you continue to take it, and ginseng has antidiuretic effect. People with renal insufficiency and people with less urine should also use it with caution.

Taboos of Ginseng

1. Ginseng can't be eaten with grapes

Grapes contain a certain amount of tannic acid, which will combine with protein to produce a precipitate, which will affect the body's absorption of ginseng's nutrients and lead to the destruction of its nutritional value.

2. You can't eat radishes and seafood after eating ginseng

Because radishes have the effect of promoting digestion and diuresis, and ginseng is a medicinal material that nourishes vitality, you can't eat radishes after taking ginseng, which includes carrots, white radishes and other kinds of radishes. Besides radishes, seafood can't eat ginseng immediately, otherwise it will affect the efficacy and destroy the nutritional value of ginseng.

3. Don't drink tea after eating

You can't drink tea immediately after eating ginseng, because tea contains a substance called tea polyphenols, which will react with ginseng, which will destroy the nutritional value of ginseng and affect its nourishing effect.

4. It is not suitable for taking when you have a cold and fever

In the process of fever, your body will have palpitations, so the blood circulation speed in your body will be accelerated after taking ginseng, which will lead to the aggravation of palpitations and colds, which is not conducive to the recovery of the disease.

reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Cephalotaxus

reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Ginseng.