Panax pseudoginseng, also known as flying ginseng, purple ginseng, or Sanqi, is a perennial herb. It can be used for medicinal purposes, as a food ingredient, and also for ornamental purposes. Let's take a closer look at its specific value, variations, and pictures together with the editor!
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[Value of Panax pseudoginseng]
It can be consumed by stir-frying or boiling after washing the stems and leaves. The tender stems and leaves can be pickled with salt to make a side dish for easy consumption.
Medicinally, the fresh stems and leaves can be crushed and applied externally to treat swelling and toxins. Taste and nature: the whole plant is sweet and neutral.
Functions: the whole plant can promote diuresis and reduce swelling, invigorate the spleen and moisten the lungs, stop coughing, and regulate menstruation.
It is used to treat dysentery, diarrhea, damp-heat jaundice, internal hemorrhoids bleeding, insufficient lactation, pediatric malnutrition, yellow water sores, spleen deficiency fatigue, pulmonary tuberculosis coughing up blood, and irregular menstruation. When applied externally, it can treat red and swollen eyes. The leaves can promote lactation and reduce swelling and toxins. It is used to treat difficult urination and hemorrhoids.
It can be used for ornamental purposes in flower beds and rock gardens, and can also be used as potted plants.
[Variations of Panax pseudoginseng]
Panax pseudoginseng (original variation)
The upper surface of the small leaf blade is densely covered with bristles along the veins, while the lower surface is hairless. The umbel inflorescence has 20-50 flowers, and the flower stalk is hairless.
The rhizome is short in young or short-term cultivation, with enlarged fleshy main roots. The leaf stalk has small, ovate, or lanceolate stipules at the base.
The rhizome is slender, bamboo-like, or bead-like. The main root is often undeveloped, and sometimes there are enlarged fleshy roots. The leaf stalk has no or rare stipules at the base.
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Sanqi (Panax pseudoginseng)
The upper and lower surfaces of the small leaf blade are densely covered with bristles along the veins, but the lower surface is sparser. The umbel inflorescence has 80-100 or more flowers, and the flower stalk has fine soft hairs (cultivated).
Feathery Sanqi (Panax pseudoginseng)
The small leaf blade is divided into two pinnate lobes, occasionally into one pinnate lobe. The stipules may remain.
The small leaf blade is undivided, occasionally with incised notches, and without stipules.
Narrow-leaf Panax pseudoginseng
The central small leaf blade is lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, with a length more than 5 times its width, and the widest part is at the base or near the base.
The central small leaf blade is elliptic, oblong, inverted lanceolate, inverted ovate, with a length less than 4 times its width.
Beautiful Panax pseudoginseng
The central small leaf blade is inverted lanceolate, inverted ovate, occasionally inverted obovate, smaller in size, the widest part is above the middle, the base is narrow and pointed, and the sides are straight.
Large-leaf Sanqi
The central small leaf blade is ovate-obovate, ovate, oblong, occasionally inverted ovate, larger in size, the widest part is often in the middle, the base is not narrow and pointed, and the sides are somewhat curved.
