Sweet, slightly bitter, cold. Attributes to heart, lung and kidney meridians.
FunctionsTo tonify qi and nourish yin, clear heat and generate fluid. It is used for deficiency of qi and yin, internal heat, coughing, phlegm and blood, deficiency heat and tiredness, thirst, dry mouth and throat.
Note that it should not be used with quinoa.
Xiyangshen is a kind of ginseng can not be replaced, with special therapeutic value of the precious tonic drugs, cold, bitter flavor, into the heart, lungs, kidneys, with fever and clearing the fire, retreating the deficiency of heat, tonifying the yin, the production of fluids and lowering blood pressure function. Clinically, it can improve or eliminate the symptoms of deficiency of fluid and blood, such as emaciation, red eyes and ears, dry mouth and throat. Thirsty and less breath, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, yin deficiency and fever, fever and yin injury, lung deficiency and prolonged coughing, coughing up blood and so on. Due to the long and slow effect of the drug, it is quite popular in the treatment and favored by the international market. It is mainly produced in the U.S.A. and Canada. 1714 by the Canadian missionary Lafayette according to the Chinese ginseng information and its specimens, hired people to look around in the country. 1716, finally in the Montreal forest in the southern Quebec province of Canada and Chinese ginseng was found in the forest of the same genus of plants, and later in the U.S. East and South have also been found, it is called American ginseng. And then for China's medical books "Materia Medica from the new", "Materia Medica Gleanings" are recorded. And in the Qing Dynasty, more applications, such as the Empress Dowager Cixi often have a spleen deficiency with the disease of dampness, the doctor considered to tonify the qi can not be dry, so the use of Fragrant Sand Six Jun Pills, with American ginseng instead of warm and dry ginseng; suffering from external wind-heat and qi and yin deficiency, but also the use of American ginseng; suffering from dry throat and mouth dryness, the stomach in the great heat, thirst, ginseng and White Tiger Soup need to use American ginseng, but also American ginseng to replace the ginseng, are half the effort with twice the effect.
The Chinese medicine believes that American ginseng is cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and it enters the lung and spleen meridians, has the function of replenishing qi and nourishing yin, eliminating fire and nourishing the stomach and generating fluids, and it is suitable for qi, yin and fire deficiency, and it is used for lung-heat and dry cough, gas layer and laziness, limb lethargy, irritability, and loss of yin and fluids after heat illnesses. Such as post-stroke syndrome with ginseng rejuvenation pills; tonifying the kidney, filling the essence and nourishing the marrow with tortoise set; strengthening the spleen and benefiting the qi with ginseng and atractylodes, or qi deficiency in patients with external infection with ginseng and poisonous drinks, pulse shengmu san, etc., want to seek to supplement without dryness, support the positive to dispel the evil spirits, and the attack of tonic and application of the ginseng to replace the ginseng, which can obtain good results. As for the weakness caused by prolonged illness, childbirth and overwork, damage to vital energy and nutritional deficiency, as well as various kinds of bleeding, anemia, dizziness and headache, neurasthenia, mental weakness, lumbago and back pain, spontaneous sweating and night sweating and other debilitating diseases, after taking American ginseng, it can quickly restore health.
According to clinical reports, patients with coronary heart disease who show deficiency of gas and yin, panic and shortness of breath, tiredness and dryness of throat, take 3 grams of American ginseng tablets every day for a long time with good efficacy. For those who suffer from sinus node syndrome with dizziness and dry mouth, take 2~3 grams of American ginseng tablets each time and chew them orally, 3~4 times a day, which can improve the symptoms significantly. For the treatment of unexplained prolonged low-grade fever with little gas and thirst, 3~6 grams of American ginseng tablets can be chewed, and at the same time, 30 grams of dicotyledonous bark, 20 grams of raw earth, 3 grams of grasshopper, and the thick juice is decocted to be served in a daily dose, which has remarkable curative effect. For the treatment of persistent night sweating, it can be combined with 3 grams of Radix Panax Ginseng (stewed separately), 30 grams of Bean Cloak, 10 grams of Ephedra Root, 3 grams of Cinnamon Branches and White Peony, decocted and divided into doses, 1 dose a day, with obvious curative effect. For excessive exercise or physical labor, exhaustion and can not return to normal, can take 3 grams of American ginseng (another stew), 30 grams of cranesbill, 10 jujubes, concentrated decoction of the juice, while taking, that is, it can be effective.
At present, many people think that American ginseng is better than ginseng, in fact, this is a misunderstanding. They are in the medicinal properties of cold temperature difference, although all have the effect of gas, but the potency of American ginseng is not as good as ginseng, such as low blood pressure or shock treatment, still ginseng is better. While high blood pressure, dizziness, sore throat and dry mouth, it is appropriate to use American ginseng. Therefore, both of them have their own merits and should be used for treatment or tonic, and should not be abused.
The serving method of American ginseng is closely related to its therapeutic effect and should not be ignored. Now, some of them are introduced as follows:
1. Cooking method Slicing American ginseng, take 3 grams into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, and cook it for about 10 minutes on a gentle fire, and then take advantage of the empty stomach before breakfast to take the slices together with ginseng soup.
2. Stewing method
Slice American ginseng, take 2~5 grams of ginseng daily and put it into a ceramic bowl, add appropriate amount of water and soak it for 3~5 hours, put a lid on the mouth of the bowl and put the base into a pot, steam and stew it for 20~30 minutes, take it half an hour before the morning meal.
3, steaming method Dry the American ginseng with small fire, grind it into fine powder, take 5 grams each time, mix it with 1 egg and take it after steaming.
4. Containing method
Steam the American ginseng in a casserole with water to soften it, then cut it into thin slices, put it in a clean small glass bottle or a small magnetic bottle, and then take 2-4 slices of American ginseng every day before breakfast and after dinner, and then chew and swallow it carefully.
5, take the method will be dry with a small fire, research into fine powder, each time to take 5 grams in a cup, add a small amount of honey, with boiled water into the cover for 5 minutes, can be divided into several times to take, to drink on an empty stomach is preferred.
6, with date method Take 20 grams of fresh American ginseng, 5 jujubes, add the right amount of water, water stew into ginseng and jujube soup, every morning on an empty stomach and at night before going to bed.
7, stewed chicken method
Wash the old hen to remove the internal organs, take 50 grams of American ginseng into the chicken belly, and then sew the chicken belly with a line, add water to submerge the chicken body, do not add salt, the first large fire, and then use a small fire to stew, stew until the chicken is cooked and rotten, the soup is left in the remaining two thirds can be eaten every day, a small bowl of chicken and soup.
During the period of taking western ginseng, avoid using tea, coffee, radish and other foods, so as not to reduce the efficacy.
Because of the high price of imported American ginseng, it has been successfully introduced in China and is called seed ginseng or domestic American ginseng. Its quality is similar to the importer, or even more than. Selection, American ginseng to feel heavy, length of 3 ~ 4.5 cm, diameter of 0.6 ~ 1.2 cm, the heart of the chrysanthemum horizontal lines for the best. But beware of counterfeiting, should go to the Chinese and Western medicine store to buy, do not buy at the stall vendors, so as to avoid being deceived.
Why is American ginseng so effective? According to the pharmacological research, it contains a variety of ginsenosides, volatile oil, sterols, polysaccharides, as well as a variety of vitamins, amino acids and trace elements, etc., with sedative, anti-inflammatory effect, can enhance memory, improve myocardial ischemia, reduce blood lipids, inhibit blood platelet aggregation, but also to improve immune function.
Seeing this, American ginseng is most suitable for patients with heat deficiency of qi and yin, and its uniqueness lies in that it is not hot and not dry, so anyone who is not suitable for ginseng treatment and hot tonic can use American ginseng. For those who have cold, cold limbs, diarrhea, cold and dampness in the stomach, weak spleen yang, greasy and cloudy tongue, etc., it is a contraindication for those who have a deficiency of yang.