Ginseng

(Research on medicinal properties)

[synonyms] Jian (jinyuchengfang), Jianshen (Gangmu Shiyi), Tu (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the root of Angelica macrodonta.

[plant morphology] Angelica macrodonta

Perennial herbs, up to 1 m high, smooth throughout. Roots fusiform or branched. The stem is single, slender, nearly tubular, and its upper part is expanded and branched. The leaves are membranous, petiolate, 4-18 cm long, sheathed; the basal leaves and the lower part of the stem are triangular in width, with two to three cycles and three branches; the final lobes are broadly ovate to subrhombic, 2-5 cm long and 1.5-3 cm wide, with 2-4 deep lobules, with notched teeth on the margin, scabrous on both sides of the veins, cuneate at the base, sharp to long pointed at the apex; the upper part of the stem is 3-lobed to shallow, with small lobes Segments lanceolate to oblong, apex obtuse or acute. Compound umbel; pedicel 2-10 cm long; involucre 4-5; umbrella 6-14, angular, inner horn hairy; small involucre subulate; flower white, petiole filiform, unequal length, 4-7 mm long; calyx teeth equal, ovate, sharp, persistent; petals obovate, apex inflexed, short and obtuse; stylar base low conic, style short, forked. Suspensory fruit nearly round, 4-5 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, flat. The flowering period is August.

Under forest, forest edge and hillside grassland. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hebei, Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Northeast China.

[collection] it can be harvested in the whole year, especially in autumn. Remove the fibrous roots, scrape the rough skin, and dry or steam it.

[medicinal material] the dry roots are spindle shaped and cone-shaped, about 8-12 cm long. The upper part of the root is about 2-3cm in diameter, with yellowish brown or yellowish gray appearance, longitudinal furrows and a few transverse wrinkles, hard texture and yellowish white fracture surface.

Produced in Fujian.

[nature and taste] Research on medicinal properties: "hard work, sweet, warm. "

[function indications] it is used to treat diarrhea due to deficiency cold of spleen and stomach and cough due to deficiency cold.

"Yiqi". "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.

[prescription selection] ① for diarrhea due to deficiency of spleen and stomach: yifushen three to five coins, Gangen five coins, huaisanqian, Yimi three coins. Take it in water. Two Fu Shen five money, five money, fried in water.

② Cure deficiency cold cough: one blessing ginseng five money, longan dry five money. Take it in water. Two blessing and five money. Early rice with a fried yellow, water fried, drink mixed rock sugar service. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine was selected)