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Introduction of the nutritional value of ginseng
1, ginseng is also called goblin and holy grass. Ginseng is divided into wild and artificial cultivation. The nature and taste of ginseng enter the meridians: sweet, slightly bitter, slightly warm, and enter the spleen, lung, heart and kidney meridians. Ginseng can tonify the middle energizer, invigorate the spleen and lung, promote fluid production to quench thirst, soothe the nerves and improve intelligence. Mainly used for qi deficiency, qi injury, body fluid injury, thirst quenching, insomnia, amnesia and other diseases. It has adjuvant therapeutic effect on blood deficiency.

2. Ginseng mainly contains 10 kinds of ginsenoside, as well as ginsenoside, β-elemene, sugar, various amino acids and vitamins. Ginseng is divided into garden ginseng and wild ginseng, and the effect of garden ginseng is far less than that of wild ginseng. Garden ginseng is usually dug up after 5 ~ 6 years of cultivation, washed and dried, which is called raw sun ginseng; Soak in boiling water, soak in white sugar, and then dry in the sun, called sugar ginseng or white ginseng; Removing lateral roots and fine roots, steaming, sun drying or oven drying, and weighing red ginseng; Fine roots are called ginseng whiskers. Ginseng has big branches, long reeds, thin skin, light yellow color, fine grains, fullness, water saturation and no injury, and wild ginseng is precious.