Ginseng root

Description:

Panax ginseng (Latin name: Panax Ginseng C. A. Mey.) , a herb with a long history, belongs to the genus Panax acanthaceae. Ginseng is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine and is considered to be a precious Chinese herb. It is mainly found in East Asia, such as China, Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East.The main characteristic of ginseng is the hypertrophy of roots and stems, and the shape is slightly humanoid, hence the name ginseng. The rhizomes come in red, white and black varieties, of which red ginseng is the most common. Ginseng root is rich in ginsenosides, polysaccharides, amino acids, trace elements and other components, in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine is considered to have the health benefits of nourishing the body, invigorating the blood, refreshing the brain, anti-aging and so on.

Application:

1.Treatment of neurasthenia and psychosis: Ginseng regulates the central nervous system and can treat neurasthenia. For patients with excitatory neurasthenia, polygala and jujube kernel are often used; For depressed patients, it is often combined with scutellaria and keel; For patients with autonomic nerve dysfunction and spontaneous sweating, schisandra, white peony and floating wheat were used. After taking ginseng, patients can reduce or eliminate headaches, heart palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness, general weakness and other symptoms, and make weight gain. Ginseng is also effective for amthenic and depressive psychosis, schizophrenia, psychosis caused by poisoning or infectious diseases, and degenerative psychosis. Ginseng can also improve people's memory, improve work efficiency, enhance physical endurance and the accuracy of sports organs. 

2.Treatment of cardiovascular system diseases: ginseng can improve the contraction capacity and frequency of the heart, stimulate the heart, speed up blood flow, promote metabolism in the body, and then adjust the body's nutritional status and slow down physical decline, enhance resistance. Ginsenosides can activate phospholipid protease, promote phospholipid biosynthesis, and thus prevent atherosclerosis of coronary artery and heart aorta. Ginseng has a certain effect on all kinds of heart disease (coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, myocardial malnutrition, etc.) and anemia.

3.Treatment of diabetes: Ginseng can stimulate the secretion function of the endocrine system, enhance the function of the pituitary adrenal cortex system, and have the effect of reducing blood sugar. Taking ginseng can reduce urine sugar in patients with mild diabetes, improve the systemic symptoms of patients with moderate diabetes, and eliminate or reduce symptoms such as thirst, excessive sweating and weakness. Taking ginseng can also reduce the amount of insulin used. 

4.Therapeutic debilitation: ginseng can significantly enhance sexual function, Chinese medicine called strong essence tonifying kidney. Ginseng has a significant effect on paralytic and premature ejaculation impotence, as well as on cortical and spinal impotence caused by neurasthenia (but not on mental impotence). Ginseng can improve sperm motility, can treat azoospermia and azoospermia.

5.Treatment of stomach, liver and other digestive system diseases: ginseng can promote the secretion of digestive juice, increase the total acidity of gastric juice, improve the upper abdominal distension, diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms of spleen and stomach weakness, so that stomach pain disappear, appetite increase, normal stool. If people participate in other traditional Chinese medicine mixed into four gentlemen soup. Ginseng can also promote liver protein and nucleic acid synthesis, can prevent acute hepatitis into chronic hepatitis. 

6.Enhance human immunity, auxiliary treatment of cancer: ginseng can improve the body's resistance to cancer cells, improve the physical condition of patients, prevent cancer cell metastasis, delay tumor growth and cancer lesions expansion. Ginseng can also prevent leukopenia caused by anti-cancer drugs. 

7.Enhance the hematopoietic function of the bone body: ginseng can promote the metabolism of ribonucleic acid (RNA), deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), protein, cholesterol, fat and sugar, promote the mitosis of bone marrow cells, increase the number of red blood cells, white blood cells and nucleated cells in the blood and thus enhance the hematopoietic function of the bone marrow. Ginseng can protect the bone marrow from radiation damage.

8.Surgery: The juice, leaves and powder of ginseng can promote rapid healing of wounds and ulcers. Ginseng extract has anti-inflammatory and detumescence effects.

9.Others: Ginseng can also improve human vision and adaptability to the dark environment, and can be used as a drug for dark operators to improve vision. Ginseng also has therapeutic effect on abnormal skeletal muscle excitability caused by children's spinal cord gray matter inflammation.