Alias Earth Panax pseudoginseng, Dry Panax pseudoginseng, Blood Mountain Grass, June Lymph, Scorpion Grass, Chrysanthemum Panax pseudoginseng, Grass Panax pseudoginseng, Panax pseudoginseng Grass.

Source The whole grass of Sedum aizoon L., Sedum panax quinquefolium, Sedum aizoon L., Sedum aizoon L., Sedum aizoon L., Sedum aizoonaceae.　

Traits of the herb dried whole grass, the stem is greenish, easy to break, hollow in the middle, the leaves are wrinkled, grayish-green on the top and bottom, but most of them have been shed. Gas no, taste slightly astringent. There are also those with roots. To color green, dry body, no impurities is preferred. Underground tuberous roots are fleshy and fat. Roots several, thickness varies, surface gray-brown, hard, section dark brown or grayish white. The branch roots are cylindrical or slightly conical. Not easy to dry, after drying the texture is more lax, dark brown, the surface is not flat, is flaking. Stem cylindrical, 30-50cm long, surface dark brown or purple-brown; brittle, easy to break, section hollow. Leaves are crumpled, often deciduous, alternate or subopposite, oblanceolate when spread, gray-green or tan. Cymes terminal, flowers yellow. It is slightly astringent in odor and taste.

Distribution and Habitat It is distributed in Northeast China, North China, Northwest China, and the Yangtze River Basin provinces and regions; it is also distributed in North Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Russia, and Vietnam. Born in mountainous forest margins, forests, shrubs from or grasslands and gravelly places. Sun-loving, slightly shade-tolerant, drought-resistant, saline-resistant, strong vitality.　

Harvesting In summer and fall, digging, removing sediment, sun-dried.

Chemical composition of the whole grass contains alkaloids (1.4 mg / kg of fresh grass), oleanolic acid, glutenol, Nestlé heptose, sucrose, fructose, protein. Also contains flavonoids and organic acids. Roots contain alkaloids, tannins, starch, arbutin glycosides.

Jingtian Panax notoginseng

Taste and flavor attributed to sweet, flat, into the liver and kidney meridian. Zhejiang Folk Herbal Medicine: flat, sweet, slightly acidic flavor.

Functions and Indications The leaves or the whole herb are used as medicine to reduce swelling, and stabilize pain. Stopping bleeding and removing blood stasis. It can be used to treat hematemesis, epistaxis, hematochezia, hematuria, metrorrhagia, carbuncle, and bruises. The juice is applied to the stings of bees and scorpions to reduce swelling and relieve pain.

Jingtian Sanqi ①"Pictorial Examination of Plant Names and Practices": "Treating vomiting of blood."

②Shanxi Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Stop bleeding. Treatment of bleeding, bleeding in stool."

③ "Zhejiang Chinese Medicine Resources Directory": "Treatment of bruises."

4 "Commonly Used Herbs of Zhejiang": "Tranquilizing the mind and tonifying blood, stopping bleeding and resolving blood stasis."

⑤ Shanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine: "Stopping bleeding and dispersing blood stasis, subduing swelling and relieving pain."

6 Nanjing Folk Herbs: "Treating vomiting blood."

(7) Guizhou Folk Medicine Collection: "Stopping bleeding and analgesia. Stopping hematemesis, hemoptysis due to injury, epistaxis, pulmonary disease, suppressing cough. Externally, it stops bleeding from knife wounds."

Use and dosage Internal use: decoction, 3 to 5 money (fresh 2 to 3 taels). External use: pounding compresses

Drug collection in summer and fall when flowering; cut the above-ground parts, dried in the sun. Can be harvested throughout the year, but the end of the fall to the beginning of the following spring digging is better.

Other It can be used as a flower in pots or hanging plants, decorating the platform courtyard, and is a health care vegetable with good therapeutic health effects.

Ginseng Panax ginseng

Perennial herb. Fleshy roots 2-5, radish-shaped, 2-4 cm long, l-1.3 cm wide, dried ginseng panax ginseng with wrinkles, the lower end of the fibrous roots or l main root. Stem ca. 30-40 cm, longitudinally striped, glabrous, with scales at base. Leaves in whorls of 4 at the top of the stem; petiole 4-l2 cm long, longitudinally striate, leaflets 3-5, membranous, obovate-elliptic to obovate-oblong, 7-10 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, apex long acuminate to caudate-acuminate, base rounded to obtuse, margins doubly serrate, sparsely bristly on the upper veins, glabrous below, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, conspicuous on both surfaces; petiolule 2-10 mm long, joined to the petiole at the point of attachment. 10 mm, with clusters of bristles at the connection with the petiole. Umbels single terminal, with 20-50 flowers, occasionally l-2 branched, inflorescences very small; common pedicel 14-30 cm, flowers yellowish-green, pedicels slender; calyx cup-shaped, margin with 5 teeth, triangular; petals 5; stamens 5; ovary 2-locular, flowers to 2, free, retrorse. Fruit globose, 7-8 mm in diameter, with 2 seeds

The rhizome is used as medicine, with about 12% of total saponins, similar to ginsenosides; its constituents are mainly ginsenosides, including ginsenosides, ginsenosides, ginsenosides, ginsenosides, ginsenosides, ginsenosides, ginsenosides, ginsenosides, ginsenosides and ginsenosides. In addition, it also contains flavonoid glycosides, starch and oil. The rhizome is warm, sweet and slightly bitter; it has the effects of stopping bleeding and dispersing blood stasis, benefiting qi and generating law, and reducing swelling and pain. It is used in the treatment of hematemesis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, hematochezia, dysentery, metrorrhagia, postpartum hematemesis, bruising and swelling, carbuncle and swelling.