White ginseng has the effect of invigorating spleen and lung, and is mainly suitable for people with insufficient qi and yin. White ginseng is made by soaking fresh garden ginseng in boiling water, putting it in sugar juice, and then taking it out and drying it in the sun, so white ginseng is also called sugar ginseng.

White ginseng is a kind of ginseng. Among the products processed by ginseng, all kinds of processing except red ginseng, such as sun-dried ginseng, white sugar ginseng and dried ginseng, are generally called white ginseng, which is sweet, slightly bitter and slightly cold. Meridian tropism is lung and spleen meridian tropism.

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Ginseng taproot is spindle-shaped or cylindrical with a length of 3-375px and a diameter of 1-50px. The surface is grayish yellow, with shallow and intermittent thick horizontal stripes and obvious longitudinal wrinkles on the upper part or all, and 2-3 branch roots on the lower part, and many slender fibrous roots are born, and there are often inconspicuous small wartlike protrusions on the fibrous roots.

The rhizome (reed head) is 1- 100px in length and 0.3-37.5px in diameter, with multiple contractures and bends, with adventitious roots and sparse pit-like stem scars (reed bowl, only grows once a year). Hard, yellow and white in cross section, powdery, with brown annular stripes, yellow-brown dotted resin channels, and radial cracks on the epidermis. The aroma is special, and the taste is slightly bitter and sweet.

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