Ginseng - ren shen

Ginseng
[ren shen]
Chinese herbal medicine
Other names: club, mountain ginseng, garden ginseng
English name: Ginseng Radix Et Rhizoma
Main effects: greatly replenishing vital energy, restoring pulse and strengthening body fluid, replenishing spleen and lung, promoting body fluid and nourishing blood, calming the mind and improving intelligence.
Ginseng is a precious qi-replenishing herbal medicine that can greatly replenish vital energy, enhance physical strength and immunity, help relieve fatigue, improve shortness of breath, palpitations, insomnia and forgetfulness, and also has the effect of delaying aging. It is mainly produced in the three northeastern provinces of China, as well as North Korea and Russia. Among them, the wild ginseng produced in Fusong, Jilin and Changbai Mountain has the best quality and is a traditional Chinese medicine recognized tonic.
Ginseng tastes sweet, slightly bitter, slightly warm, and enters the spleen, lung, heart, and kidney meridians. This herbal medicine has a significant effect on replenishing qi. It can not only rescue seriously ill patients with severe vital energy damage, but also regulate the problem of long-term spleen and lung weakness. In addition, it can promote the production of body fluids, soothe the nerves and help sleep, and enhance memory by replenishing qi. It is suitable for dry mouth, diabetes, anxiety, insomnia, forgetfulness, etc.
Ginseng contains more than 30 active ingredients, including ginsenosides, polysaccharides, amino acids, vitamins, etc. These ingredients work together to quickly restore vitality, stabilize the symptoms of collapse, and regulate the spleen and stomach function, nourish the lungs, promote hematopoiesis, soothe the nerves and strengthen the brain.
Effects
Ginseng can quickly replenish physical strength and help people who are extremely weak or recovering from a serious illness to restore vitality. It can regulate gastrointestinal function, improve poor appetite, diarrhea, and promote water absorption; relieve long-term cough and asthma, and enhance respiratory system function. For those who often have dry mouth and dizziness, "retract and improve anemia. It can also help improve insomnia, improve memory and attention, and is especially suitable for people with high mental consumption or those in the recovery period after surgery.
What are the main effects and clinical applications of ginseng?
Ginseng is mainly used in the following situations: physical weakness to the point of collapse, cold hands and feet and weak pulse, weak spleen and stomach and inability to eat, weak lungs causing asthma and cough, dry mouth and lack of water, thirst due to diabetes, insufficient qi and blood, long-term illness and weakness, palpitations and insomnia, and sexual dysfunction.
Qi deficiency and collapse syndrome: It is suitable for dangerous situations in which physical strength is completely overdrawn, breathing is weak, and the pulse is almost untraceable due to severe sweating, severe vomiting, severe diarrhea, heavy bleeding, or long-term consumption of serious illness. Ginseng can quickly replenish vitality and save lives, and is an important medicinal material for emergency treatment. Spleen deficiency syndrome: It is specifically used to improve spleen and stomach weakness, targeting symptoms such as easy fatigue, weakness in the limbs, loss of appetite, and loose stools. . For example, people with long-term indigestion and abdominal distension after eating.
Lung Qi Deficiency Syndrome: for respiratory problems caused by weak lung function, such as shortness of breath after a little activity, low and weak voice, easy to catch a cold and other symptoms. Suitable for patients with chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
Thirst caused by fluid and internal heat: It can both replenish qi and produce fluid, suitable for the body lack of water after high fever (accompanied by weakness and sweating), and thirst and polydipsia in diabetes. For example, the symptom of persistent thirst after fever but drinking water does not quench thirst.
Restlessness and insomnia: Improve palpitations, difficulty falling asleep, dreaminess and easy awakening, memory loss and other problems. It is helpful for insomnia caused by high exam pressure or awakening at night in menopause.
Other applications: It can also be used to control abnormal bleeding caused by weak constitution (such as uterine bleeding, bleeding gums): improve male erectile dysfunction; used in combination with cold medicine and laxatives to treat exogenous wind-cold or constipation in people with weak constitution.