Tianqi, also known as Panax quinquefolium, is an herbaceous plant of the ginseng genus of the family Wujiaceae, with only one species of Panax quinquefolium, which is born in an altitude of 1,200-1,800 meters, and is not suitable for cultivation in low-lying areas, and is mainly cultivated in the southeastern part of China's Yunnan Province and the southwestern part of Guangxi Province.

The plant Tianqi looks like

Tianqi is an erect herb with a height of about 60 centimeters, the main root is fleshy and fusiform, the stem is dark green in color, the leaf blade is digitately compound, membranous, with stripes at the petiole, and the umbel is borne singly at the top of the stem, with a large number of flowers.

Color: Tianqi has a large number of flowers, but the flowers are small and yellowish green in color.

Leaves: The leaves of Tianqi are digitately compound, whorled at the tip of the stem, with stipules clustered, linear, petioles striped and smooth, and blades membranous, elliptic to obovate-oblong elliptic.

Seeds: the seeds of the plant Tianqi are white in color and triangular-ovate in shape, flowering in July-August and fruiting in August-October.

Roots: Panax ginseng main root is conical or cylindrical, the color of the epidermis is gray-brown or gray, there are longitudinal wrinkles and branching root scars, stem scars at the top, and raised verruca, the tendons are conical, the cuttings have irregular strips, and the surface has a very obvious stem scars and ring lines.

Describing the plant Tianqi sentence

In the Qing Dynasty, Panax ginseng has been a tribute to the court of the precious medicinal herbs, the continuous flow into the palace, very valuable, Huang Yuanyou wrote the "Jade Rowan medicinal interpretation" recorded: "and camping and stopping bleeding, through the veins and rows of silt, rows of silt and convergence of the heart and blood".

Pictures of Tianqi plant