Cultivated varieties include garden ginseng and wild ginseng, which are divided into red ginseng, edge ginseng, white ginseng, sun-dried ginseng, dried ginseng, strong ginseng, sugar ginseng, peeled ginseng and ginseng beard due to different processing.
2. Korean ginseng Korean ginseng is produced in Korea.
Korean ginseng can be divided into water ginseng, white ginseng and red ginseng according to color. Ginseng was collected from ginseng field and not dried; Followed by white ginseng, which is made of four to six-year-old water, peeled and naturally dried with ether sunlight or hot air, and its color is light yellow; Finally, red ginseng is made by steaming ginseng. The water content is less than 14%, and the structure is hard and yellowish brown, which can be preserved for a long time.
3. Mainland Ginseng The ginseng produced in Jilin, Liaodong, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Hubei, Yunnan, Sichuan and other seven provinces in the northeast is collectively referred to as mainland ginseng.
Among them, white ginseng produced in Jilin and Liaodong is the best, and red ginseng produced in Xinkaihe Valley of Changbai Mountain is the best. However, the control standard of mainland ginseng has not been formulated yet, so it is difficult to master the quality of mainland ginseng, so we must pay more attention when choosing it.
4. Wild Ginseng In addition to the ginseng produced in the above seven provinces, rare wild ginseng can be found occasionally in remote mountainous areas (especially in northeast China, such as Changbai Mountain and Jilin), and because it is rare, the price of wild ginseng is very expensive. Wild ginseng is different from Korean ginseng. Korean ginseng has a golden period of six years, but it goes downhill after six years, and wild ginseng is more valuable as it gets older. Usually, the growth period of wild ginseng can range from several decades to one hundred and two hundred years, and the longest can even reach more than 500 years.
5. Oriental Ginseng (Japanese Ginseng) Japanese ginseng is an oriental ginseng, which is cultivated from seeds originating in northeast China or South Korea. However, perhaps because it is far away from the original natural growth environment, the effect of oriental ginseng is weak and relatively cheap.
6. American ginseng (that is, ginseng fruit, ginseng, ginseng) American ginseng is commonly known as ginseng in Taiwan Province Province, mainly produced in the United States, Canada and other places, and it is also called ginseng because of its high quality and quantity in Wisconsin, USA. According to the growing environment, American ginseng can be divided into wild, semi-wild and artificial cultivation. Among them, wild and semi-wild American ginseng are relatively rare, and most of them are artificially planted products.
Panax quinquefolium also belongs to Araliaceae, so its main effective components are roughly the same as ginseng.
7. Codonopsis pilosula actually does not belong to Araliaceae, but belongs to Campanulaceae. Codonopsis pilosula can be divided into three types according to different producing areas: western Codonopsis pilosula, eastern Codonopsis pilosula and Shandong Codonopsis pilosula. Its roots are long and big, unlike ginseng, which has a human form.
8. Scrophularia Scrophularia, also known as Scrophularia, tastes the most bitter. It belongs to Scrophulariaceae and has no effect of ginseng. So it only has the name of "ginseng", which is actually different from ginseng.
9. Adenophora adenophora can be divided into Glehnia littoralis and Glehnia littoralis, which belong to Umbelliferae and have no ginseng effect.
10. Salvia miltiorrhiza belongs to Labiatae. Like Radix Adenophorae and Radix Scrophulariae, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae only has the name of ginseng, but it has no effect.
In fact, there are still many parameters in life. I just listed some common ones, which are not too unusual for everyone. I also hope that after reading the above arrangement, you can have a clearer understanding of the parameters.