What is ginseng?

Nicknames: yellow ginseng, blood ginseng, human title, ghost cover, holy grass, goblin, seaweed, wrinkled face, Dan; Family: Araliaceae; Distribution: Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Hebei (Wuling Mountain, Dushan Mountain), Shanxi, Hubei, etc.

Ginseng is known as the "king of herbs" and one of the famous "three treasures" (ginseng, mink and velvet antler) in Northeast China. It is a precious medicinal material well-known at home and abroad, known to all ages, and also a famous Chinese medicinal material with a history of thousands of years. Traditional Chinese medicine has a high evaluation of the efficacy of ginseng. According to Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, ginseng has the functions of "nourishing the five internal organs, calming the mind, calming the nerves, stopping convulsions, eliminating pathogenic factors and improving eyesight".

Ginseng is a tertiary relict plant and an endangered Chinese herbal medicine. For a long time, due to over-exploitation and resource depletion, the forest ecological environment on which ginseng depends has been seriously damaged, resulting in the scarcity of real wild ginseng, which has been listed as a rare plant under national first-class protection.

Ginseng is a very precious traditional Chinese medicine, and it is the treasure of medicine. It can increase human body heat, enhance the intensity and flexibility of cerebral cortex excitation process, reduce fatigue and improve immunity. The rhizome at the top of ginseng is also a mild emetic. Its leaves can cure sore throat. People can cure many diseases by taking part in other drugs. It can be said that ginseng is full of treasures. The main medicinal part of ginseng is its root. The longer ginseng grows, the more valuable it is. Experienced farmers can calculate the age of ginseng from the dent on its head. The more dents, the older ginseng is.

Ginseng has been praised by the eastern medical community as a good product of "nourishing yin and nourishing life, strengthening the body resistance and consolidating the foundation" since ancient times. Ginseng extract can be slowly absorbed by skin, helping to dilate skin capillaries, promoting skin blood circulation, increasing skin nutrition, regulating skin water-oil balance, and preventing skin dehydration, hardening and wrinkling. At the same time, the active substance of ginseng also has the ability to inhibit the decrease of melanin, making the skin fair and smooth.