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Ginseng and sea cucumber are tonics, but what are they?
Ginseng occupies an important position in people's minds. It is considered to be an important drug for invigorating vitality, among which perennial wild ginseng has the highest medicinal value. Ginseng is a perennial herb and likes a cool and humid climate. Most of them grow in coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forests or miscellaneous forests on gentle slopes or hillsides at an altitude of 500 ~ 1 100 meters. Mainly produced in the three northeastern provinces, dried or dried, known as "raw sun-dried ginseng." After steaming, it is called "red ginseng".

Chinese medicine believes that ginseng is flat, sweet and slightly bitter. Has the effects of invigorating primordial qi, restoring pulse, resolving hard mass, invigorating spleen, benefiting lung, promoting fluid production and calming the nerves. It can be used for asthenia, listlessness, anorexia due to spleen deficiency, asthma and cough due to lung deficiency, thirst due to body fluid injury, thirst due to internal heat, palpitation and insomnia's chronic illness, impotence, palace cold, heart failure and cardiogenic shock.

Modern pharmacological studies have found that ginseng mainly contains 10 kinds of ginsenoside, as well as ginsenoside, β-elemene, sugar, various amino acids and vitamins. Has antiarrhythmic and antiaging effects. In recent years, studies have also found that the effective components of ginseng also have anti-tumor effects.

Ginseng is one of the specialties in Northeast China. It is called ginseng because its roots are hypertrophy, spindle-shaped and often bifurcated, and the whole picture is quite similar to human head, hands, feet and limbs. Ancient ginseng was nicknamed Polygonatum sibiricum, Goblin and Shencao. Ginseng is known as the "King of Herbs" and is one of the famous "Three Treasures in Northeast China" (ginseng, mink and velvet antler). It is a precious medicinal material that is well-known at home and abroad and is known to all ages. In the medical history of China, the use of ginseng has a very long history. As early as the Warring States Period, the famous doctor Bian Que knew the medicinal properties and curative effects of ginseng. Qin and Han Dynasties Shennong Herbal Classic listed it as a top-grade medicinal material. Ginseng can be divided into wild ginseng and garden ginseng. Wild ginseng, known as "wild ginseng", mostly grows in the virgin forest mixed with rare broad-leaved forest and coniferous forest in northeast China. It is a protected plant in China. Its growth is very slow, and one or two kinds of ginseng will take forty or fifty years or even hundreds of years. Due to the increasing demand for wild ginseng, wild ginseng is becoming more and more rare. Garden ginseng, that is, artificially cultivated ginseng, is also called "home ginseng". Similar to ginseng in color and shape, but bitter and spicy, ginseng tastes bitter but fragrant.

Nutritional value and efficacy of sea cucumber;

1, sea cucumber-delaying aging, eliminating fatigue, improving immunity and enhancing disease resistance. Sea cucumber is rich in more than 50 kinds of natural and precious active substances, such as protein, minerals and vitamins. Among them, acidic mucopolysaccharide and chondroitin can obviously reduce the contents of lipofuscin and skin proline in heart tissue and play a role in delaying aging. The 18 amino acid contained in sea cucumber can enhance the metabolic function of tissues and enhance the cell vitality of the body, which is suitable for growing teenagers. Sea cucumber can adjust the water balance of human body and is suitable for women with swollen legs and feet during pregnancy. Sea cucumber can eliminate fatigue, improve human immunity and enhance human resistance to diseases, so it is very suitable for middle-aged men and women who are often in a state of fatigue, the elderly and children who are prone to colds and weak constitution.

2, sea cucumber-Ocean Viagra, nourishing blood and regulating menstruation Sea cucumber has a high arginine content, which is called arginine monopoly. Arginine is the main component of male sperm cells, which can improve brain conduction and gonadal nerve function, slow down gonadal aging and improve erectile ability. One sea cucumber a day is enough to strengthen the foundation, tonify the kidney and replenish essence. Stichopus japonicus in Jiaodong is rich in sea cucumber iron and collagen, which has obvious functions of generating blood, nourishing blood and enriching blood, and is especially suitable for pregnant women, postoperative patients and menopausal women.

3, sea cucumber-healing, anti-inflammatory, liver protection, blood vessel protection Sea cucumber is not only a delicious food, but also a nourishing medicine. Taurine and lysine in sea cucumber are almost absent in plant food. The unique active substance of sea cucumber, holothurin, has a significant inhibitory effect on many fungi. Stichopin A and B can be used to treat fungal and tinea versicolor infections, with significant anti-inflammatory and osteogenic effects, especially for hepatitis patients, tuberculosis, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.

4. Sea cucumber-Stichopus japonicus, which is beneficial to intelligence, brain strengthening and midwifery, contains two kinds of ω-polyunsaturated fatty acids (EPA and DHA). DHA plays an important role in the development of fetal brain cells. The development of the human brain begins in the third month of pregnancy, and the fetus obtains DHA and EPA from the mother through the placenta. If the mother lacks DHA, it will cause the shortage of phospholipids in fetal brain cells and affect the normal development of fetal nervous system. DHA is good for enhancing memory and IQ, and it can also make pregnant women's breasts plump and their milk full. Since ancient times, pregnant women in Japan and Shandong Peninsula have one day supplemented the dietary custom of a sea cucumber. In ancient China, there were: sea cucumber nourishing blood and moistening dryness, regulating menstruation and preventing miscarriage, midwifery and lactation, and repairing tissues.

5, sea cucumber-eliminate tumors, fight cancer, and protect the heart. The body wall, viscera and glands of sea cucumber contain a lot of sea cucumber toxins, also known as sea cucumber saponins. Sea cucumber toxin is an antitoxin, which is safe and nontoxic to human body, but it can inhibit the growth and metastasis of tumor cells and effectively prevent and fight cancer. It has been widely used in the treatment of liver cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, bone cancer, lymphoma, ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, breast cancer, brain cancer leukemia and postoperative patients.

Efficacy:

Tonify kidney, resisting canc, caring skin, improving intelligence and strengthening body.