The efficacy and effects of northern ginseng

April 5, 2023
BeiShaShen is the dried root of Coraline, family Umbelliferae, mainly produced in Shandong, Hebei, Liaoning and other places. It is slightly cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and belongs to the lung and stomach meridians, with the effect of nourishing Yin and clearing the lung, benefiting the stomach and generating body fluid.

Nourishing Yin and clearing the lung

It can nourish lung yin and clear lung heat at the same time. It is suitable for people with yin deficiency and heat in the lung, such as dry cough with little phlegm, prolonged coughing, or dry throat with hoarseness, and can also be used to treat yin deficiency and heat, coughing and hemoptysis.

Benefiting the stomach and promoting the production of body fluid

Bei Sha Shen is sweet and cold to nourish stomach yin, and bitter and cold to clear stomach heat. It is often used for dry mouth and excessive drinking, hunger and lack of appetite, rheumatism in the stool, bare tongue coating or red tongue with little fluid, or stomach pain, dry vomiting, noisy stomach, etc. caused by stomach Yin deficiency and heat.

Immunosuppression

Northern ginseng polysaccharide has obvious inhibitory effects on cellular and humoral immunity, T cells and B cells, and can inhibit the delayed hypersensitivity reaction in mice, and does not cause atrophy of central immune organs. It has a significant inhibitory effect on the rejection of mouse homologous implants.

Antipyretic and analgesic

The ethanol extract of northern ginseng can cause a mild decrease in body temperature in normal rabbits, and also has an antipyretic effect on rabbits with typhoid vaccine-induced fever. In addition, the application of pulpal electrical stimulation in rabbits also proved the analgesic effect of the ethanolic extract of northern ginseng.

Anti-tumor

The application of flow cytometry found that Bei Sha Shen had an inhibitory effect on the proliferation of tumor cells, with the rate of inhibition above 20%. The infusion of North American ginseng had an inhibitory effect on the histidine-deficient mutation of Salmonella typhimurium TA98 and TAl00 induced by diaminofluorene.

Contraindications of North American ginseng

North American ginseng has very low toxicity and fewer side effects. However, it should not be used together with quinoa; it should also be prohibited for people with wind-cold coughs and loose stools; it should be used with caution for people with phlegm-heat coughs.
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