Traditional Chinese medicine believes that American ginseng is cold in nature, sweet in taste and slightly bitter. It enters the lung and spleen meridians, and has the effects of invigorating qi and nourishing yin, clearing away fire and relieving annoyance, nourishing stomach and promoting fluid production. Commonly used for chronic cough due to lung deficiency, dry mouth and throat, upset and insomnia, limb weakness, blood loss and shortness of breath. Excessive bleeding caused by gynecological diseases, such as functional uterine bleeding, postpartum hemorrhage, uterine fibroids, etc.; Climacteric hot flashes, thirst, upset, insomnia, irritability and internal heat caused by physiological reasons; After surgical treatment of cervical cancer, uterine cancer and ovarian cancer, patients with yin deficiency, internal heat, body fluid injury, thirst, hematuria and hematochezia caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy can use American ginseng as adjuvant treatment. Patients with coronary heart disease can take 3 grams of American ginseng every day if they have symptoms such as deficiency of both qi and blood, palpitation and shortness of breath, fatigue and dry throat, and the long-term effect is good. For people with dizziness, fatigue and dry mouth, chewing a proper amount of American ginseng every time can obviously improve the symptoms.
Although American ginseng is unique in treating diseases and keeping fit, it also has contraindications. Chinese medicine believes that people with insufficient yang and cold and dampness in the stomach should not take it. For example: pale face, edema and cold limbs, slow heartbeat, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, abdominal distension, white and greasy tongue coating, male impotence, premature ejaculation and nocturnal emission; American ginseng is forbidden for women with apathy, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea and excessive leucorrhea. In addition, children with developmental retardation, dyspepsia, cold and cough or acute infection with damp-heat syndrome should not take American ginseng.
Like other drugs, if you can't take it symptomatic, you will also have adverse reactions. Some people will suffer from chills, hypothermia, loss of appetite, abdominal pain and diarrhea if they take American ginseng. Some will have dysmenorrhea and delayed menstruation; Others will have allergic reactions, such as blisters of different sizes scattered in the upper and lower limbs, and abnormal itching. When the above symptoms appear, you should stop taking American ginseng immediately.
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Panax quinquefolium has the effects of invigorating qi and nourishing yin, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, and can be used for treating qi deficiency and yin deficiency, cough due to internal heat, asthma, excessive phlegm and less blood, asthenia due to deficiency heat, thirst, dry mouth and throat. American ginseng is sweet, slightly bitter and cool. Its main function is to benefit lung and yin, clear deficiency fire, promote fluid production and quench thirst. Can be used for treating chronic cough due to lung deficiency, cough and asthma, hemoptysis, fever, yin injury, dry throat and thirst, asthenia due to deficiency heat, stomach fire and toothache. In addition to strengthening the body and eliminating fatigue, it also has the effects of nourishing yin and reducing fire, clearing away deficiency and heat, invigorating stomach and promoting fluid production, invigorating qi and benefiting blood.
It is recorded in Shennong Herbal Classic in the later Han Dynasty that ginseng has pants and five internal organs. Long-term use can soothe the nerves, stop convulsions, improve eyesight, improve intelligence and prolong life.
In the Compendium of Materia Medica in Qing Dynasty, it was recorded that American ginseng pants and lungs reduce fire and produce fluid, which is most suitable for those who are tired and have fire.
"Materia Medica from the New" records: tonifying lung and reducing fire, promoting fluid production and eliminating fatigue. Suitable for deficiency fire.
"Medicinal Property Test" records: nourishing yin and clearing heat. Ginger tonifies qi and consolidates roots.
Herbal rejuvenation records: treating lung fire, cough with excessive phlegm, qi deficiency and asthma, blood loss, strain, calming the nerves, and producing deficiency.
"Seeking the Original in this Chapter" records: clearing lung and kidney, cooling heart and spleen, reducing fire, relieving summer heat and hangover.
It is recorded in the Record of the Decline of Western Ginseng Medicine that it can replenish qi and blood.
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Health care effect: American ginseng is also called American ginseng and American ginseng. Originated in the United States and Canada, it is a valuable health care drug, which was first used clinically in China and has a history of more than 300 years. As early as the thirty-third year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, it was recorded in the Supplement to Materia Medica and the Compendium of Materia Medica in the thirty-third year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty. "Medicinal Property Test" records that "foreign ginseng, such as Liaoshen white skin ginseng diced, tastes like ginseng, only cold and bitter; Nourishing yin and reducing fever, ginger is good for strengthening the body and benefiting qi. " For example, the two meridians, lung and stomach, have the functions of nourishing lung yin, clearing fire and promoting fluid production. The Medical Record of American Ginseng records that "American ginseng is cool and tonic, and anyone who uses ginseng instead of warming it can replace it". American ginseng was included in the supplement of Herbal Supplement written by Wang Ang, a medical scientist in the Qing Dynasty, saying that it is "cool in nature, bitter in taste, sweet and thick, and thin in gas, suitable for invigorating lung and reducing fire, promoting fluid production to relieve fatigue, wasting and being eaten by people with fire". Because of its scarcity and high price, it is equivalent to or even exceeds the price of gold at that time, and is called "green gold". Traditional Chinese medicine research has proved that American ginseng has a good effect on hypertension, a "civilized disease" that frequently occurs in modern society. Can be used for treating heart diseases such as myocardial dystrophy, coronary heart disease and angina pectoris. It is especially suitable for improving symptoms such as irritability, heat and thirst caused by heart disease.
Modern medicine has proved that American ginseng has pharmacological effects such as improving physical and mental labor ability, relieving fatigue and regulating central nervous system. It has good curative effect on heart diseases such as hypertension, myocardial dystrophy, coronary heart disease and angina pectoris. It is especially suitable for improving dysphoria, sweltering heat and thirst caused by heart diseases, alleviating adverse reactions caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy of cancer patients, such as dry throat, nausea, emaciation, leukopenia, anorexia, salivary gland atrophy, etc., and changing the stress state of the body and reducing the atrophy of thymus and lymph glands.
Clinical aspects of traditional Chinese medicine: it can be used to treat cough, lung failure, asthenia, thirst, stomach fire, toothache and so on. At the same time, it can also be used to treat neurasthenia, autonomic nervous disorder, pleurisy, infectious polyneuritis and Japanese encephalitis in the recovery period, or be compatible with other Chinese medicines, with good curative effect.
Pharmacological effects: The pharmacological activities of Panax quinquefolium L. are various and have two-way regulating effects. In recent years, the research results of Chinese and foreign scholars have proved that the main pharmacodynamics of American ginseng can be summarized as follows:
1. has sedative, learning and memory enhancing, nerve growth promoting, anticonvulsant, analgesic and antipyretic effects on the central nervous system, and is suitable for neurasthenia, psychosis, hypomnesia and senile diseases.
2. It has antiarrhythmic, myocardial ischemia and reperfusion injury effects on cardiovascular system, and is suitable for arrhythmia, coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, cerebral thrombosis, coronary artery bypass surgery, etc.
3. For the blood system, it has the functions of anti-hemolysis, hemostasis, lowering blood coagulation, inhibiting platelet aggregation, regulating blood lipid, anti-atherosclerosis and lowering blood sugar, and is suitable for hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis, senile diseases, diabetes and other diseases;
4. It has anti-fatigue, anti-hypoxia-ischemia, anti-shock, anti-thirst, anti-high and low temperature and various chemical factors, and is suitable for all kinds of shock;
5. For the immune system, it has the functions of reducing lipid peroxide and malondialdehyde, enhancing SOD activity, inhibiting lymphocyte transformation and spleen weight, and is suitable for senile diseases and cancer.
6. For endocrine system, it acts on pituitary-adrenal cortex system (ACTH-like) and pituitary-gonad system, promoting the synthesis of serum protein, bone marrow protein, organ protein, brain protein and fat, hepatocyte protein (RNA polymerase), fat and sugar. It is suitable for senile diseases, sexual hypofunction, anemia and cancer.
7. It has antidiuretic effect on urinary system and is suitable for Addison's disease and senile diseases;
8. For tumors and viruses, it can inhibit the proliferation of viruses such as cancer cells and herpes simplex, and is suitable for various cancers and viral diseases.
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Common name:
American Ginseng
Sexual taste:
Cool in nature and slightly bitter in taste.
Efficacy:
Supplementing qi and nourishing yin, clearing away deficiency and heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.
Suitable food:
It is suitable for people with weak constitution, excessive fire due to yin deficiency, injury of both qi and yin, chronic cough due to lung deficiency, and excessive phlegm and fatigue. Suitable for Sjogren's syndrome, diabetes, chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and deficiency of both qi and yin; It is also suitable for cancer patients; Suitable for eating in hot summer.
"Materia Medica is separated from the new": "Tonifying the lung and reducing fire, promoting fluid production, removing annoyance and deficiency fire are all suitable." Seeking the Grassland: "Lung qi originates from the kidney, and all drugs that benefit lung qi are slightly cold, but this is bitter cold, but it is suitable for fire injury, expectoration and fatigue." "Adding Fake Medicine": "Western ginseng nourishes yin to reduce fire, while eastern ginseng nourishes qi to help fire, which has the opposite effect. Anyone who coughs because of yin deficiency and excessive fire will calm down every time he uses real American ginseng, and his cough will gradually subside. " Western medicine fever: "American ginseng is cool and tonic, and anyone who wants to use ginseng without being warmed by it can replace it."
Avoid eating:
It is called stomach cold and pain, and it is not suitable for people with light tongue coating. Don't eat radish and tea while taking American ginseng. Panax quinquefolium should not be decocted with iron. When taking veratrum, avoid eating American ginseng at the same time.
"materia medica leaves the new": "those who are dirty and cold take it, that is, abdominal pain." Compendium of Materia Medica: "Avoid frying with iron and fire."
note:
Panax quinquefolium contains many kinds of ginsenosides, the main sapogenins are panaxadiol, panaxatriol and oleanolic acid, in addition to volatile oil, resin, rhamnose and glucose. Panax quinquefolium saponin, like ginsenoside, has obvious anti-fatigue and anti-hypoxia effects.