Red ginseng

Red ginseng

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[synonym] purple ginseng (Diannan materia medica) and hairy Salvia miltiorrhiza (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge.

[plant morphology] Salvia miltiorrhiza

Herbs perennial, 20-60 cm high, all sparsely pilose. The root is conic, well developed, and the skin is ochre. Leaves opposite, odd pinnate compound; leaflets 3-9, terminal one largest, about 3 cm long and 2 cm wide, ovate or oblong ovate, margin irregularly serrate. Raceme terminal, long peduncle, pubescent; calyx 2-lipped; corolla 2-lipped, lavender, corolla 2-fold longer than calyx; stamens inserted in crown throat, only 1 pair developed below, 1 pair degenerated or absent above. Nutlets oblong.

It grows in the crevice of cliff or grass at the base of rock. Distributed in Shaanxi, Hubei, Yunnan, Sichuan and other places.

[collection] in autumn, it is used for digging, rooting, washing and drying.

[nature and taste] 1. In the South Yunnan Materia Medica, it is warm in nature, bitter and sweet in taste, and flat in taste. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "light, warm. "

[functions and indications] 1. In the herbal medicine of South Yunnan, it is said that "activating collaterals and strengthening tendons, warming meridians and warming collaterals. Treatment of cold dampness arthralgia, numbness of hands and feet, soft war shaking, muscle pain, hemiplegia; gall soft flow phlegm. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "tonifying deficiency, promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation. Treatment of fatigue, weakness, irregular menstruation. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 2-3 yuan.

[selection] treatment of fatigue and weakness: two liang of red bone ginseng, stewed chicken, taken four times.