Ginseng is a very good nourishing Chinese medicine, which can alleviate the deficiency of qi and blood in the body. However, not everyone can apply it. Let me introduce it to you, I hope it will be useful to you!

Efficacy and function of ginseng

Ginseng is sweet, slightly bitter, slightly warm in nature, and enters the spleen, lung, heart and kidney meridians, benefiting qi and moistening dryness, with more ascending and less descending; Has the effects of invigorating qi, invigorating spleen, invigorating lung, tranquilizing mind, improving intelligence, nourishing blood, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.

Ginseng is mainly used to treat serious illness, chronic illness and blood loss, resulting in loss of vitality, mental fatigue and weak pulse; Poor appetite, less fatigue, vomiting and diarrhea; Shortness of breath caused by lung qi deficiency and cough weakness; Insomnia, dreaminess, fright, forgetfulness, physical weakness and sweating caused by deficiency of heart-qi; Thirst due to fluid deficiency, quenching thirst; Blood deficiency and sallow, dizziness; Impotence due to kidney deficiency, frequent micturition and exogenous qi deficiency.

Method for soaking ginseng in wine

Ginseng health wine

Ingredients: 90g of Lycium barbarum, 65g of Polygonatum sibiricum, 32g of Astragalus membranaceus, 28g of Angelica sinensis, 38g of Cordyceps sinensis, 60g of longan pulp and 25g of ginseng.

Methods: 50% yellow rice wine 1.5 kg, soaked 1 month.

Nourish qi and blood, strengthen the body and prolong life. It is a kind of mild health wine, which can make people rosy and shiny.

Ginseng tonic wine

Formula: 20 grams of ginseng, 25 grams of astragalus, 20 grams of angelica, 60 grams of longan pulp, 0/5 grams of Ligusticum chuanxiong/kloc-and 45 grams of prepared rehmannia root.

Methods: Soak in 50% rice wine 1 month before drinking.

This wine is suitable for qi and blood weakness, pale face, mental fatigue, or rare and pale menstruation, late menstruation and so on. People who are not good at drinking can drink this wine in soup. Or stew chicken with this wine is also effective.

Pinellia ginseng wine

Formula: Rhizoma Pinelliae, Radix Scutellariae, Rhizoma Zingiberis, Radix Ginseng and Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata, Rhizoma Coptidis, Fructus Jujubae 10g, and wine, 750g.

Methods: Mash the medicine, wrap it in cloth, soak it in wine, add 500 grams of cold boiled water after 5 days, and remove the residue for later use.

Treat disharmony between stomach and qi, cold and heat, heart distension and hardness, nausea and nausea, weak bowel sounds and mental fatigue.

Who should not take ginseng?

People with strong allergies should not take ginseng if they have a rash after taking it. Do not take it when there is suppurative inflammation.

Hypertensive patients are those with hyperactivity of liver yang, which is easy to cause cerebrovascular accidents after taking it. However, patients with deficiency-cold hypertension can use ginseng, but the dosage is small. When the systolic blood pressure is > 180 mmHg, ginseng should not be taken by any type of patients.

As many people know, it is not advisable to drink tea and eat radish when eating ginseng, because both of these foods have the function of promoting qi circulation, and ginseng supplements its vitality and excludes its function after tonic, which is equal to eating it for nothing.

Ginseng is generally not suitable for colds and fevers. Because the palpitation is serious when you have a fever, the user will improve the blood circulation at the meeting, which will aggravate the palpitation and aggravate the condition.

Ginseng is not suitable for asthma syndrome caused by sudden asphyxia, dry throat caused by dry heat, vomiting blood and nosebleed caused by impulse.