There are three methods for external use of ginseng: external application of mashed mud, local rubbing and external washing of decoction.
Slice inclusion
Slice inclusion is the most convenient and commonly used method of taking ginseng.
The specific method is to put ginseng slices in your mouth, don't chew them, and chew them until they are completely softened.
This way of eating ginseng is not only followed by the people, but also respected by the court. The Qing palace's "Shen Di Bo" records that Empress Dowager Cixi used the method of containing Shen.
Because the ginseng you buy is often whole and dry, it is difficult to cut it off, so you can put it in a bowl or basin first and stew it with water. You can also put it in the stew. When the rice is cooked, the ginseng will be soft, and then cut into thin slices, so it will be easy to slice.
Sun-dried sliced ginseng, bottled, covered and stored in a cool and dry place for later use.
It is best to use a dark bottle that is opaque and dark. It is best to put a small bag of desiccant in the bottle to help prevent ginseng from absorbing water and deliquescence from affecting the nourishing effect.
The daily dosage should not be too much, and 3~5 tablets are appropriate.
It is better to eat ginseng on an empty stomach in the morning. Taking it at this time is beneficial to the body's absorption, thus playing a nourishing role.
After swallowing ginseng residue, you can drink a big mouthful of boiling water, drum rinse several times and then swallow it to clean your teeth.
Special reminder: People suffering from oral ulcer, gingival swelling and pain, gingival bleeding and chronic pharyngitis should not adopt the above ginseng-containing method.
Take it by grinding powder
The powder is taken by grinding ginseng into fine powder for later use and taking it when necessary.
The key of this method is to grind the original ginseng into powder. Ginseng can be stewed until soft, sliced, dried and processed into powder. Ginseng should be ground as fine as possible, sieved and sealed in porcelain bottles.
Ginseng is used for nourishing or preventing diseases, and it is often used in combination with other drugs, such as Shen Ling powder in Jingyue Quanshu, that is, Ziziphus jujuba seed and Poria cocos.
At this time, ginseng can be ground into powder, and other drugs can be ground into powder, then all the powders are mixed and sieved to obtain powder, and the coarse powder is ground and sieved again, and finally bottled for later use.
There are many ways to eat in ginseng powder, which can be roughly divided into two categories.
One is to take it with boiled water, rice soup or medicinal juice, such as "Xia Shu Powder" for heatstroke, irritability, lethargy and fatigue, and take it with boiled water in equal parts with ginseng powder and white flour.
The other is to take powder and take it with boiled water, rice soup or medicinal juice, such as Tiaozhong Powder for the treatment of vomiting and diarrhea in Wonderful Recipe, and use ginseng, poria cocos, clove, roasted licorice, fried atractylodes and perilla.
Respectively processing ginseng and other medicines into powders, mixing, sieving and storing.
To reconcile ginseng powder or send it to ginseng powder, boiled water and rice are often used to drink soup, and ginger jujube soup and papaya soup are also useful.
Rice drinking soup can help stomach qi, and people with weak spleen and stomach can use it.
Ginger jujube soup can regulate qi, and people with gastrointestinal discomfort can drink it. Generally, take 3 slices of ginger and 5 slices of jujube, add water and decoct to get juice, and take it instead of water.
Papaya soup can be used to treat diarrhea and diarrhea. Generally, papaya is decocted in water to get juice and taken instead of water.
Under normal circumstances, you can take it with boiling water or send it.
Now, the processed ginseng powder can also be packed in capsules, which is convenient for preserving the medicinal properties and taking. Hollow capsules are generally available in pharmacies.
make a cake
Ginseng cake is often used as an ingredient with other drugs, and then mixed with flour or rice flour to make cakes.
Before making a cake, ginseng should be processed into very fine powder and sieved with a sieve for use. Other drugs can be processed into powder and used after sieving, or they can be decocted in water to get juice, and water is mixed in when mixing the powder.
When making a cake, put flour or rice flour into a basin, add ginseng powder, powder or juice, add appropriate amount of water, stir together to make cake powder that can be dispersed by hand, and steam it in a steamer.
When you put the cake powder into the steamer, you should first spread a layer of wet gauze. After pouring the cake powder, don't be stressed. Use strong fire when steaming.
Ginseng can be used as a staple food or a snack when making cakes. Once it is made, it can be eaten for many days.
Shen Ling jujube gaohua
Raw materials: Ginseng, Poria cocos, Atractylodes macrocephala, Lotus seeds, Chinese yam, Euryale euryales and japonica rice.
Production: Ginseng Radix, Poria, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Lotus Seeds, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, and Folium Artemisiae Argyi are respectively processed into fine powders, and then screened with japonica rice. Put all kinds of powder in the same pot, add water and mix well, and add appropriate amount of sugar to make cake powder. Put the mixed cake powder into a cage, gently press it, cut it into small pieces with a knife, and steam it over high fire.
The recipe has the effects of invigorating qi and spleen, nourishing kidney and astringing essence, and is helpful to prevent and treat mental fatigue, spontaneous sweating, shortness of breath, burnout, dizziness, amnesia, diet loss, loose stool, nocturnal emission, nocturnal emission and other symptoms caused by deficiency of both spleen and kidney.
It is good for mental workers to improve their intelligence and health, prolong the life span of the elderly and promote the growth and development of children.
Making stuffing and cooking
Both fresh and dried ginseng can be used as stuffing.
When fresh ginseng is used as stuffing, it is washed, cut into small pieces, chopped into mud, mixed with meat, seasoned with refined salt and monosodium glutamate, and used as stuffing for jiaozi, wonton or glutinous rice balls. You can also eat tofu skin wrapped in oil-embedded tofu stuffing.
Dry ginseng should be processed into powder first, or stewed with water, and then packaged with meat or other foods.
Special reminder: ginseng should be eaten as stuffing, and it should be eaten immediately.
Ginseng sweet glutinous dumplings
Ingredients: Ginseng, Poria, Chinese yam, red bean paste, sugar, cooked lard and glutinous rice flour.
Production: Ginseng Radix, Poria, and Rhizoma Dioscoreae are soaked in a small amount of water for 2 hours, boiled in water, mashed into mud, added with appropriate amount of white sugar and cooked lard, mixed to make stuffing, embedded in pre-mixed glutinous rice flour, and packaged into jiaozi.
Usage: Take a proper amount of glutinous rice balls and cook them in boiling water, then serve.
Ginseng glutinous rice balls have a strong nourishing effect. Regular consumption is helpful for invigorating qi and spleen, stimulating appetite, making people energetic, healthy and longevity.
As soup
Soup is a dish with strong soup, which is mainly made of meat, eggs and tofu.
Ginseng soup includes ginseng lotus seed soup and ginseng bird's nest soup, which are precious nourishing products.
Take fresh ginseng as soup, wash it, slice it or chop it into fine powder for use. If dried ginseng is used, it should be thoroughly soaked in water and chopped into fine powder for easy boiling. When stewing, you should put a little more water and cook it into thick soup. Ginseng powder can also import other foods when they are almost ripe.
If the formula of ginseng chicken soup contains traditional Chinese medicine that is not suitable for direct consumption, you can put the traditional Chinese medicine into a casserole, add water to boil the juice, and then mix it with ginseng to boil the soup.
According to consumers' tastes, ginseng chicken soup can be seasoned with sugar or salt.
Longevity powder
Raw materials: ginseng, poria cocos, lotus seeds, gordon euryales, coix seed, yam, glutinous rice and sugar.
Preparation: processing the raw materials into fine powder and sieving for later use.
This recipe comes from "Biography of Ya", which has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, improving intelligence and prolonging life. It is suitable for patients with symptoms of deficiency of both spleen and kidney, such as decreased diet, thin stool, mental fatigue, spontaneous sweating, shortness of breath, laziness, nocturnal emission and poor memory.
Cook porridge to eat.
Porridge has the characteristics of benefiting the spleen and stomach and being easy to digest.
Ginseng porridge can play the role of invigorating qi and strengthening spleen, especially suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach function after illness, or those who are engaged in mental work and have poor digestive function.
Ginseng porridge, you can fry ginseng juice first, wait until the porridge will be transferred, and you can eat it after a little cooking; Ginseng can also be processed into very fine powder and added to porridge to eat. Another method is to add more water first, cook ginseng until it is thoroughly cooked, add washed rice and cook it into porridge.
Where there are other drugs besides ginseng in the formula, this method is often adopted, that is, the ginseng and other drugs are first put into a casserole, boiled in water for 1 hour, the residue is discarded, and porridge is cooked with washed rice.
A prescription for treating children with stomach cold and deficiency cold, with symptoms of vomiting, loose stool and crying anxiety, is introduced in the "Heart Guide of Famous Doctors".
Ginseng, Poria, Ophiopogon japonicus and glutinous rice are used. First, put ginseng and other medicines into a pot, add water and decoct to get juice, then add the medicine juice into washed glutinous rice and cook it into porridge.
Another example is "Qin Shou Pension Book", which introduces a kind of ginseng porridge for treating nausea and sour water.
First, take ginseng and ginger, add water and fry them to get juice, then add millet, cook them into porridge and eat them when you are hungry.
When cooking porridge, rice paste is difficult to cook. You can cook it once every 2 or 3 days and eat it separately.
Drink tea
For tea lovers, ginseng tea is a convenient and practical way to eat ginseng.
Take more ginseng whiskers for making tea, which can be cut short or put into the original roots, or ginseng slices can be used.
Do not soak the original ginseng, because the whole or segmented ginseng is often difficult to soak thoroughly, which is not conducive to the full use of its nutrients.
Ginseng leaves can also be used to make tea.
When making tea, put ginseng roots or ginseng slices into a teacup, first pour a small amount of warm water or cold water, soak ginseng, cover it for half an hour, then pour boiling water, cover it tightly, and drink it after 10 minutes.
Add boiled water with your drink, and chew ginseng residue when it tastes weak.
Some people think that ginseng residue tastes bad and is discarded after drinking tea, which is not conducive to the full use of ginseng. Some people brew a few pieces of ginseng repeatedly, even for ten days and a half, which is not desirable.
Ginseng can be brewed and drunk with other drugs or foods, such as ginseng and chrysanthemum. Put the sun-dried ginseng and white chrysanthemum together in a teacup, soak it in warm water for half an hour, then pour it into boiling water until it is full, cover it tightly, and let it stand for 10 minutes before drinking.
The beverage has the effects of invigorating qi, invigorating spleen, clearing away liver heat and improving eyesight. People who are tired, dizzy, lazy, uneasy, upset and have a bad sleep, or sometimes have a fever, can often drink this tea.
Special reminder: If you want to improve the taste of ginseng tea, you can add some sugar.
If you want to nourish yin and clear fire due to heat in your constitution or disease, you can generally use American ginseng and white sugar ginseng, and you can use rock sugar to taste. If the constitution or disease is cold and you want to warm up, you can generally season it with red ginseng and brown sugar. In general, sun-dried ginseng can be used.
Drink soup agent
Ginseng soup is the most common way to eat ginseng, especially in emergencies, taking ginseng soup with unique flavor has always been valued by doctors.
The pill for breaking the syndrome and killing the life recorded in the ancient Chinese medicine book 10 1 recipe selection is made of excellent ginseng and decocted with water to get juice, which is used to treat various symptoms of bleeding caused by qi deficiency, apathy and weak pulse, aversion to cold and fever, thirst and anxiety, etc.
Ginseng, boiled with its own taste, has strong nourishing power, can replenish vitality, save collapse, and play the role of saving lives and saving the country, so it is called "killing life".
Ginseng for family health care can be taken by decoction, in small doses, or by decoction, together with other medicines and foods. For example, slice ginseng, soak it in water, fry it for 5~ 10 minutes, drink soup and chew ginseng.
When people take part in the use of other drugs together, they can be decocted together or separately, and the juice is taken, then mixed with the medicinal juice and taken after stirring.
Sijunzi decoction
Ingredients: Ginseng, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Poria, Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata.
Production: put ginseng and other drugs into a casserole, add water and fry for 2 times, and then mix the two kinds of medicine juices.
Usage: Take it twice and drink it on an empty stomach.
This recipe is helpful to treat qi deficiency and weakness, such as lack of appetite, pale face, qi deficiency and laziness in speaking, weakness of limbs, loose stool and other symptoms.
Soak medicinal liquor
Both fresh ginseng and dried ginseng can be used to soak wine.
Take ginseng roots or ginseng slices, put them into a bottle, pour 2000 ml of good white wine (or ginseng soaking degree), cover and seal them, and stir them from time to time. After half a month, the medicinal properties of ginseng can be separated and taken.
When people take part in the combination of other drugs, they can be sliced and soaked in other drugs.
Special reminder: ginseng soaked in wine should be dried, and the wine should use good white wine, otherwise it will go bad easily.
Spiritual medicinal liquor
Ingredients: Ginseng, Radix Rehmanniae, Fructus Lycii, Herba Epimedii, Fructus Tribuli, Flos Caryophylli, Lignum Aquilariae Resinatum, Radix Polygalae, Semen Litchi and Chinese Liquor.
Preparation: put the drugs except liquor into a clean gauze bag, tie the mouth of the bag, put it into liquor and soak it in a sealed way for 45 days.
Usage: 50 ml twice a day.
The wine has the effects of nourishing blood, invigorating qi, calming nerves, improving intelligence and prolonging life, and is suitable for middle-aged and elderly people with decreased energy, physical strength and intelligence to drink and exercise.
Make syrup
Syrup, as its name implies, is pulp juice with more sugar content.
When making ginseng syrup, the concentration of sugar juice and ginsenoside content are adjusted in the process of white sugar participation, filtered, added with preservatives, subpackaged and sterilized to obtain the finished product.
Generally, take 1 spoon twice a day, and take it with boiling water. Can better enhance physical vitality, improve immune function and promote cell metabolism.
Syrup is a viscous liquid, thinner than ointment. It can be taken directly or with boiled water.
Usually take ginseng decoction as syrup. Such as ginseng and Schisandra syrup, ginseng bee milk, etc.
People participate in other drugs to make ointment Ziduo, such as traditional ointment Zifang Qiongyu ointment.
Generally, ginseng is first processed into powder and sieved for later use; Concentrate the decoctions of other medicines, then add ginseng powder, stir into paste, cool, bottle and store. Take 1 spoon or 2 spoonfuls of ointment each time, dissolve in boiling water and drink.
Special reminder: when ginseng is used as a paste, it should be processed into very fine powder and sieved with a sieve before use. When using ginseng powder to collect the paste, you should pour it and stir it with chopsticks until it is fully stirred.
Cool thoroughly before bottling, and wash and dry the stored bottles. Use a clean spoon when taking cream.
Ginseng and Schisandra syrup
Ingredients: ginseng, Schisandra chinensis, honey 3.
Production: Put Ginseng and Schisandra in a pot and fry them in water twice, mix the decoctions, add refined honey, boil for a while, cool and bottle for later use.
Usage: Take it twice a day, 2 spoonfuls each time, and take it with boiling water.
This prescription has the effects of invigorating qi, astringing yin and calming the nerves, and is suitable for people who are upset and have poor sleep after illness.
Ginseng bee milk
Ingredients: ginseng, bee milk, sugar.
Production: firstly, clean ginseng, cut it into small pieces, put it in a pot, add 500 ml of water, boil it, keep it warm for 2 hours with slow fire, let it cool, and filter to get juice; Pour royal jelly into a pot, mix well with 250 ml of cold boiled water, heat with strong fire, add white sugar, stir well, and let cool; Pour ginseng juice into bee milk white sugar juice, stir evenly, cool, and bottle for later use.
Usage: Take it twice a day with 2 spoonfuls each time, which can be taken with warm water.
Sticking to taking ginseng bee milk is helpful to beautify and prevent senile constipation.
Qiongyu ointment
Ingredients: ginseng powder, Poria powder, Radix Rehmanniae and honey.
Preparation: decocting Radix Rehmanniae in water to obtain juice, decocting twice, then mixing decoctions, concentrating, boiling in refined honey, adding Ginseng Radix and Poria powder, stirring, and collecting paste.
Usage: Take 2 spoonfuls twice a day with boiled water.
The cream has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening lung, and is suitable for patients with heart and lung yin deficiency and symptoms such as palpitation, restlessness, insomnia, dreaminess, hypomnesia and dry throat.
Hezuo meatballs
The pill made of ginseng is one of the most widely used dosage forms in traditional formula.
Hundreds of pills named after ginseng in past dynasties, or different drugs, or different doses, or different indications, have formed hundreds of ginseng pills.
Single-flavor ginseng pills are rare, and they are basically used together with other drugs. From 2 to 3 flavors to dozens of flavors, it adapts to different food needs.
When making, ginseng and other medicines are respectively processed into powder, sieved and made into pills with water or honey or jujube meat. After making meatballs, dry them in the shade and bottle them for later use.
Special reminder: when making pills, the amount of refined honey should be appropriate, so that it can be glued into pills, not too much.
Meatballs should be as small as possible for swallowing. You can take it with warm boiled water, or with warm wine or rice soup. Generally, it can be carried for a long time at a time, and it is also convenient to carry.
Honey refining method: put fresh honey into a casserole, boil it with strong fire, then cook it with slow fire for half an hour, and filter it with clean gauze to remove the precipitate.
Ginseng pill
Ingredients: Ginseng, Poria, Semen Ziziphi Spinosae, Radix Polygalae, Fructus Alpinae Oxyphyllae, Concha Ostreae and Fructus Jujubae.
Preparation: Ginseng Radix and other medicines are respectively processed into powder, sieved and mixed evenly; Soak jujube in water for half a day, stew until cooked, paste jujube meat and soup into balls, dry in the shade, and bottle for later use.
Usage: Take it twice a day after meals.
This prescription comes from the book Jing Yue Quan Shu, which has the functions of calming the mind, improving intelligence, calming the nerves and solidifying essence. Suitable for people who are overworked, fidgety, insomnia, dreaminess, forgetfulness and nocturnal emission.
Cooking dishes
There are many ways to cook ginseng, either slicing it or stewing it with chickens, ducks and pigeons. , or boiled with related food after grinding, or boiled with ginseng first, then extracted the concentrated solution, and then boiled when frying.
Such as folk nourishing ginseng stewed chicken.
When making, kill the chicken to remove hair and impurities, and soak the ginseng and angelica in water 1 hour. Then put ginseng and angelica into the chicken belly, pour the juice of ginseng and angelica, add ginger, wine, salt and other seasonings, stew with slow fire until the chicken is crisp and rotten, take out angelica, eat ginseng and chicken and drink soup.
Shuangshen soft-fried shrimp cake
Raw materials: fresh shrimp, chicken breast, ginseng, salvia miltiorrhiza, yellow wine, wet starch, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper and egg white.
Preparation: drying Ginseng Radix and Saviae Miltiorrhizae Radix, processing into powder, and sieving.
Chop fresh shrimp and chicken breast, put them in a bowl, add egg white, yellow wine, wet starch, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, ginseng and sage powder, steam them in a cage for 5 minutes, take them out and cool them, cut them into strips, pour sesame oil on them, or fry them in an oil pan for eating.
Usage: Take with meals, once a day 1 time.
Ginseng tonifies the spleen and qi, Salvia miltiorrhiza soothes the nerves and calms the heart, and shrimp and chicken breast nourishes and strengthens the body. Eating this diet helps to prevent and treat neurasthenia.
External application of rammed mud
Ginseng is applied externally, and more fresh ginseng is used.
Wash fresh ginseng first, then cut it into small pieces, put it in a small stone mortar, mash it into mud and apply it externally.
If there is no fresh product and dried ginseng is needed, ginseng slices should be fried with water, ginseng juice should be taken, and then ginseng residue should be mashed and applied externally or smeared.
Ginseng ointment has the effect of moistening skin and beautifying face, and long-term use is also helpful to the healing of sores.
Although this method is applied externally, it is actually combined with oral juice, so its beauty beauty effect is obvious, which can make facial skin smooth and moist, and it is not easy to wrinkle.
According to Chen Liyun and Hong Chaoxing of Anxi County Hospital in Fujian Province, 35 cases of wound infection, chronic ulcer and bedsore were treated by external application of ginseng residue, and the effect was satisfactory.
Their method is to take American ginseng or Korean ginseng, cut it into pieces, stew it in clear water, drink soup and leave residue for later use.
Wash the wound with normal saline to remove the necrotic tissue, then apply the ginseng residue piece to the local area, wrap it with sterile gauze, and change it every 3 to 5 days 1 time.
External application of ginseng residue is a simple and effective external treatment, especially suitable for patients with chronic ulcer and deficiency of vitality.
Ginseng external application is also suitable for centipede bites, bee stings and dog bites.
Local friction
There are three ways to rub ginseng: one is to take fresh ginseng, cut it waist-high and rub it locally with the cross section of ginseng; Secondly, ginseng is processed into very fine powder, which is placed locally after sieving and then rubbed on it; The third is to extract the effective components of ginseng, refine them into skin care products and rub them locally.
Ginseng Rubbing acts on internal organs through skin penetration, which can enhance the function of internal organs, eliminate diseases and strengthen the body.
In modern times, ginseng is purified by brushing ginseng water, and then stearic acid, white oil and emulsifier are added. The ginseng skin care milk is a good nutritional cosmetic with smooth, soft, delicate and whitening skin.
Some people mix ginseng fine powder with mineral water, glycerin, tasteless gelatin and vitamins to make ginseng massage liquid, which is used for massage, not only reducing the friction between skin and palm and face, but also making the skin absorb nutrients and get the effect of skin care.
Chang fa Zi Rong powder
Ingredients: roasted ginger skin and ginseng.
Production: ginseng and ginger bark are processed into powder together and bottled for later use.
Usage: When using, take 1 slice of fresh ginger, cut one end neatly, dip the cross section of ginger in ginseng and ginger bark powder, and rub the hair falling off the head. 1 once every other day can make hair loss grow back.
Wash the soup externally.
Ginseng decoction, as an external washing, is recorded in Wei Yilin's Shi Yi De Xiao Fang. You said your stomach was broken and you had to wipe it with oil. Take ginseng and Lycium barbarum, decoct in water, take the juice and wash it, and serve it with lamb loin porridge. It will recover in 10 days. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica recorded this method.
It is rare to leach ginseng soup directly by modern methods.
People use modern technology to extract ginseng tincture and mix it with pepper tincture extracted from pepper. Extracted into adult ginseng hair tonic for shampooing.
Studies have proved that ginseng hair growth liquid has the functions of nourishing blood and promoting hair growth, improving local blood circulation, increasing nutrition supply of hair follicles, reducing sebum secretion, preventing hair follicles from hyperkeratosis and promoting hair growth, and has preventive and therapeutic effects on alopecia caused by alopecia areata and seborrheic alopecia.
When in use, first wet the hair with warm water, then squeeze the ginseng hair tonic with one hand, rub the scalp with the other hand to make it foam fully, and rinse it with warm water after 3-5 minutes.