Effects and functions: can clear heat, dry dampness, kill insects, diuretic; used to treat feverish blood dysentery, intestinal wind and blood, jaundice, red and white with discharge, pediatric pneumonia, chancre, acute tonsillitis, etc.; but also to treat hemorrhoidal leakage, prolapse of the anus, itchy skin, pubic sores, wet and itchy, scrofula, scalded blood in stools, swollen, dysuria, intestinal infections, etc.; used externally for scabies itching.

Note: Not to be used if the spleen and stomach are cold. It should not be used with veratrum.

Bitter ginseng, its root is long cylindrical, the lower part is often branched, 10-30cm long, 1-6.5cm in diameter, the surface is grayish-brown or brownish-yellow, with longitudinal wrinkles and transverse long lenticel-like protrusions, the outer skin is thin, more ruptured and recoiled, easy to peel off, peeling off the place of the yellow, smooth.

Expanded Information:

, "Materia Medica": "Yao Fei Cheng Yun, bitter ginseng, dispel wind and fire, dry dampness and insect medicine. The former said that the bitter ginseng kidney tonic Yin, its theory is very fallacious. Covering the bitter taste of this drug, fishy, dry Yin things, dirty and difficult to serve, but the kidney gas is solid and wet fire winners are appropriate; if the fire fails to cold essence, the yuan yang insufficient, and elderly people, stomach weakness, weak gas, is not appropriate. Moreover, there is a long time to serve and lead to waist weight, because of its special descending and not ascending, the real injury to the kidneys of the said also, how to tonify the kidneys and yin of the function of the?"

3, "Shennong Ben Cao Jing": "Lord of the heart and abdomen knot gas, the accumulation of obstruction, jaundice, drowning with residual leaching, water, remove carbuncles and swellings, tonifying the middle, brightening the eyes and stopping tears."

4, "Famous Doctors": "Nourish the liver and gallbladder, tranquilize the five viscera, set the will and benefit the essence, benefit the nine orifices, remove the ambient heat of the intestines _, quench thirst, sobering up the wine, yellow and red urination, treating ulcers in the lower part of the evil sores, calming the stomach qi, and making people addicted to food."

5, "Pharmacognosy": "treatment of heat and wind, skin and muscle irritation and sores, red mange and eyebrow off, the Lord in addition to the great heat and drowsiness, the treatment of cold pain in the abdomen, abdominal pain in the middle of the evil, in addition to the body boredom, the treatment of the heart and abdominal accumulations."

6, "Diannan Materia Medica": "Cooling the blood, detoxification of fever, scabies, pus areoles sores. Cure skin itching, blood wind ringworm sores, stubborn skin white flakes, intestinal wind and blood, blood in stool. Subdues wind, swellings and phlegm poison."

Baidu Encyclopedia - Bitter Ginseng