Chinese medicinal herb "False Ginseng" is a wild vegetable that grows in rural areas. Because its roots resemble ginseng, it is called "False Ginseng" by the locals. What is the value and appearance of False Ginseng, including its pictures?
Picture of False Ginseng
Can False Ginseng be eaten?
False Ginseng can be eaten. It not only has medicinal value, but is also delicious to eat. It can also be used for ornamental purposes.
1. Edible
After washing the stems and leaves, they can be stir-fried or used to make soup. The tender stems and leaves can be pickled with salt to make a side dish.
2. Medicinal
The fresh stems and leaves can be mashed and applied externally for swelling and toxicity. Taste and properties: the whole plant is sweet and neutral.
Effects: the whole plant can diuretic and reduce swelling, tonify the spleen and moisten the lungs, stop coughing, and regulate menstruation.
It can be used to treat dysentery, diarrhea, damp-heat jaundice, internal hemorrhoids bleeding, insufficient lactation, pediatric malnutrition, damp sores, spleen deficiency fatigue, pulmonary tuberculosis coughing blood, irregular menstruation. The leaves can promote lactation and reduce swelling and toxicity, and can be used to treat difficult urination, hemorrhoids, and ulcerous swelling.
3. Ornamental
It can be planted in flower beds or rock gardens, and can also be used as a potted plant.
The medicinal value of False Ginseng is reflected in
Picture of False Ginseng
1. Treating fatigue and weakness
When feeling mentally weak, frequently tired, and physically weak.
Take five to ten grams of False Ginseng along with dried cuttlefish and stew it with alcohol, then consume it.
2. Treating spleen deficiency diarrhea
When suffering from spleen deficiency diarrhea, reduced appetite, stuffiness in the stomach after eating, loose or watery stools, undigested food.
Take five to ten grams of False Ginseng along with five grams of jujube and decoct it with water.
3. Treating consumptive cough
If suffering from consumptive cough, long-term cough leading to consumption or severe lung damage, dry and painful throat, extreme fatigue, bloody and foul-smelling sputum, inability to speak.
Take False Ginseng along with Tong Hua root, Gé Shān Qiao, rock sugar, and stew it with chicken, then consume it.
4. Treating night sweats and spontaneous sweating
If suffering from spontaneous sweating or night sweats, sweating excessively during the day, and especially worse when moving, or excessive sweating after falling asleep, sweating stops upon waking up.
Take twenty to forty grams of False Ginseng along with a pig stomach and stew it, then consume it.
