Red ginseng is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, belongs to the family of umbelliferae, five plus family plants. Red ginseng is a cooked product of ginseng, which has the effect of replenishing vital energy, restoring the veins and fixing the blood, and benefiting the qi and blood intake. Red ginseng is processed by ginseng after moistening, cleaning, sorting, steaming, drying and drying.

Morphological Characteristics

The main root is fusiform or cylindrical, 3-10cm long, 1-2cm in diameter, with translucent, reddish-brown surface, occasional opaque dark yellowish-brown patches, longitudinal grooves, wrinkles, and fine root scars, and intermittent inconspicuous rings at the upper part; the lower part has 2-3 twisted and crossed branched roots with curved fibrous roots or only fibrous root remnants. The rhizome (reed head) is 1-2 cm long, with several fovea-like stem scars (reed bowls), some with 1 or 2 complete or broken adventitious roots ({D}). The texture is hard and brittle, the section is flat and horny-like. The odor is slightly fragrant and peculiar, and the taste is sweet and slightly bitter.

Consumption value

Red ginseng is a cooked product of ginseng, in addition to tonifying vital energy, tonifying the spleen and lungs, and generating fluids and tranquilizing the mind, its medicinal properties are warmer, with the characteristics of fire, strength, and strong efficacy, and it is better at tonifying vital energy, restoring yang to save the body and benefiting the vital energy and blood intake. From the point of view of health care, red ginseng is a good tonic for those who are deficient in qi and blood and are weak in yang. Anyone who is often afraid of coldness, has no warmth in the hands and feet, has dizziness and tiredness, is weak in the limbs, is easy to fatigue, has shortness of breath and shortness of breath, has a feeling of cold in the stomach, has diarrhea for a long period of time, has insomnia, has dreamy dreams, has impotence, urinary frequency and other manifestations can use red ginseng for tonic.

It replenishes the vital energy, fixes the loss of body fluid, and calms the mind. It can be used for treating labor injury and deficiencies, low food intake, tiredness, regurgitation and vomiting, slippery stools, coughing and wheezing, sweating, palpitations, forgetfulness, dizziness and headache, impotence, frequent urination, thirst, women's leakage, children's slow fright, and long-time deficiency, all the evidence of deficiency of qi, blood and fluids.

①Benjing: "The main tonifying the five viscera, tranquilizing the spirit, stopping palpitations, removing evil spirits, brightening the eyes, and making people happy and wise."

② "Other Records": "treatment of cold in the stomach and intestines, abdominal and heart drum pain, chest and ribs against fullness, cholera and vomiting, regulating the middle, quenching thirst, blood circulation, breaking the firm accumulation, people do not forget."

3 "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": "Lord of the five viscera gas deficiency, five labor seven injuries, deficiency and thinness, vomiting and not down to eat, to stop cholera boredom vomiting retch, complement the five viscera and six bowels, to protect the center of the guardian of God." "Eliminate phlegm in the chest, the main lung impotence and vomiting pus and epilepsy, cold gas against the upper, typhoid fever does not go down to eat, the affected person is weak and dreamy and confused, plus and use it."