Grown ginseng is also nutritious, but the nutritional content is relatively small.

Ginseng has the effects of anti-fatigue, regulating body metabolism, anti-tumor, enhancing immunity, and delaying aging. In ancient times, only royal nobles could eat ginseng to replenish the body. Nowadays, ginseng has entered the homes of ordinary people. Many people like to use ginseng to make dishes and stews. It has the effect of nourishing the body. The nutritional value of ginseng is also very high. Now let’s learn about the nutritional value of ginseng.

Ginseng is also known as goblin and divine grass. Ginseng is divided into two types: wild and artificially cultivated. Meridian distribution of ginseng properties and flavors: sweet, slightly bitter, slightly warm, enters the spleen, lung, heart, and kidney meridians. Ginseng greatly replenishes vitality, nourishes the spleen and lungs, produces body fluids and quenches thirst, soothes the mind and improves the mind. It is mainly used for diseases such as Qi deficiency, Qi and body fluid damage, thirst, insomnia, and forgetfulness. It has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on blood deficiency.

Ginseng mainly contains more than 10 kinds of ginsenosides, as well as ginseng alcohol, β-elemene, sugars, various amino acids and vitamins. Ginseng is divided into garden ginseng and wild ginseng. The medicinal effect of garden ginseng is far less than that of wild ginseng. Garden ginseng is usually harvested after 5 to 6 years of cultivation. It is washed and dried and is called raw sun-dried ginseng. After being scalded in boiling water, soaked in sugar and then dried, it is called sugar ginseng or white ginseng. The lateral roots and fine roots are removed. Steamed and dried in the sun or oven, it is called red ginseng; the fine roots are called ginseng whiskers. Generally, ginseng has large branches, long reeds, thin skin, bright yellow color, fine lines, fullness, sufficient pulp and no wounds, and wild ginseng is the most valuable.

Ginseng leaves also contain the same saponins as the roots, which have the effects of promoting body fluids, dispelling heat, reducing water deficiency, and relieving hangovers; making tea from ginseng flowers has a stimulating effect; and ginseng paste made from processed ginseng fruits is a high-grade tonic. Taste.