Han Kongque shook his head and said: "Foreigners' understanding of ginseng is completely different from ours. In our country, ginseng is equivalent to holy medicine, human flesh and bones of the living dead, but there is no such understanding abroad, so as long as they know something
They grow good things, and they look a bit like ginseng, so they are all named after ginseng. There are many such examples."
"Boss, look what I picked for you. I've been eating too much meat recently, so we just made some chrysanthemum tea to drink." At this time, Jin Yao picked some wild chrysanthemums from nowhere.
flower.
"Chrysanthemums?" Han Peacock looked at the golden flowers. Are there wild chrysanthemums here?
"Why don't I look like a chrysanthemum?" Mu Ling said.
"I dug a chrysanthemum like this. Take a look at it." Jin Yao took out a plant, and indeed there were several small chrysanthemums on it.
"This is not a chrysanthemum." Seeing this plant, Han Peacock was speechless.
Han Peacock also said just now that there are many plants abroad that are named ginseng, and one of them is actually seen here. Such a thing is too coincidental, but this just shows that Siberia is a vast land and rich in resources.
"This is not a chrysanthemum? What is that?" Huangshan said with a smile.
Mu Ling also laughed: "This is not chrysanthemum, is it ginseng?"
Looking at the joking Mu Ling, Han Kongque said helplessly: "This thing is really ginseng."
When Han Kongque said this, several people were speechless. However, no matter how they looked, they didn't find that Han Kongque was joking at all.
"Boss, are you serious?" Huang Shan asked.
Han Kongque said: "This is indeed ginseng, its full name is Siberian Huanyang Ginseng."
"Damn, there are indeed a lot of ginseng here. Acanthopanax can be ginseng, and chrysanthemum can also be ginseng. I wonder if foxtail grass here is also ginseng?" Jin Yao looked incredulous.
"This thing is Huanyang Ginseng?" Mu Ling obviously knew about Huanyang Ginseng, but she didn't expect that this kind of ginseng actually bloomed chrysanthemums.
Han Peacock explained: “Siberian ginseng is a plant of the genus Asteraceae, which is why the flowers look like chrysanthemums. This ginseng is mostly distributed in Russia, Central Europe, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China.
Mainland Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and other places.
Judging from the environment here, the altitude is not low, so it should be able to grow. This plant grows in areas with an altitude of 1,000 meters to 2,680 meters. It mostly grows at the foot of the forest edge, on the hillside, on the top of the mountain, under the forest, in the forest grassland or in the shrubs.
, it has not yet been artificially introduced and cultivated, and it can be regarded as a rare and good thing."
Siberian ginseng is a perennial herb, generally 50-150 cm tall, with thick rhizomes, lying flat or ascending, and bearing many thick adventitious roots.
Stem erect, solitary, stout, base diameter about 7 mm, upper corymb-like branches, thick branches, rarely unbranched, all stems and branches covered with leaves, covered with dense or sparse black, brown or white
It has long bristles, and the upper part is mixed with spider-like hairs, so it is very easy to recognize.
"This is also ginseng. Is it as precious as ginseng?" Huangshan doesn't care about anything else. If ginseng is really useful, it is right to collect more.
"Most people in China don't know this. This medicinal material is mainly used to make Huanyang Shendan. I heard that it works very well, no worse than some famous Chinese medicines in China." Han Kongque said.
"Huanyang Shen Dan? A medicine made from Huanyang Shen? What is it used for?" Huangshan asked.
Han Kongque said with a smile: "When it comes to the efficacy of Huanyang Shendan, it cannot be characterized according to Western medicine. What is its main treatment and what are its side effects? It is like Zhang Zhongjing's Siwu Decoction, which consists of four herbs, angelica, Chuanxiong, and white peony root.
, Rehmannia glutinosa has four kinds of medicine!
It is good for bruises and injuries. It is good for menstrual irregularities. Even urticaria and allergic purpura have been cured. But what is this kind of prescription called? It is called Quxie, which means it will remove the disease for you.
, so most of the prescriptions now focus on dispelling evil spirits.
The main function of Huanyang Shendan is to regulate the human body's righteousness, also called yang qi and vitality, to smooth out the chaotic righteousness and make the weak righteousness stronger, so this is a prescription for strengthening the body.
Huanyang Shendan does not target diseases, but the body's righteousness. I heard that taking Huanyang Dan can prolong life. Is this true? I have never eaten it, and I have never seen anyone taking it, so I don't know if it can make people live longer.
, but many people say that good drugs should have some effects."
"That's why China's proprietary Chinese medicines are bad at it. They can cure almost all diseases. That's why foreigners don't believe it and always think that the Chinese are bragging. That's why there are jokes like the Chinese people are very good and Chinese agriculture is very good."
Mu Ling opened his mouth and said.
"This is not our ancestors, because our ancestors are really good at it. What do you think is the first medical book in ancient my country?" Han Peacock asked with a smile.
"Huangdi Neijing?" Mu Ling said.
Han Kongque said: "Many people say it is the Nei Jing, but in fact it is not. It is just a theoretical book. Seriously, the medical book, that is, the book on treating diseases and saving lives, should be Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases.
In ancient China, all diseases in the human body were caused by insufficient righteousness and the invasion of six evils. Which six evils? Wind, cold, dampness, dryness, heat, and heat. So in China, there were only these six diseases. We didn’t know them before.
, I think Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases is just a book for treating colds, but it’s not. Basically all symptoms can be found in Treatise on Febrile Diseases.
Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine supported by this theory can treat diseases fundamentally and can indeed produce medicines that can cure all diseases. Of course, traditional Chinese medicine is generally used to remove evil spirits, strengthen the foundation and strengthen the body. It treats diseases fundamentally, so it is not as good as
Those drugs that specifically target one disease work quickly.
But the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine have slowly begun to be recognized by people in modern times, especially those foreigners abroad who used to belittle traditional Chinese medicine. On the contrary, a large part of the Chinese people still think that traditional Chinese medicine is a lie. This has to be said
It’s a kind of sadness.”
Seeing Huangshan thoughtfully, Han Kongque said with a smile: "Of course the Yang Ginseng is not only used to make the Yang-Returning Pill, but also the Nine-turn Yang-Returning Pill. It is not a magic pill that brings the dead back to life, but an aphrodisiac, so
Yang Ginseng is really a good thing."
"It is indeed a good thing, but it shouldn't be as good as ginseng, right?" Huang Shan said.
Han Peacock laughed: "You're not stupid. There are many types of ginseng, and although many medicinal materials are not ginseng, they have the word "ginseng" in their names. They have different effects, so you must distinguish them clearly when using them.
The most valuable ginseng is the wild ginseng from the Northeast. We are approaching the Northeast. In this jungle of Siberia, there may still be wild ginseng. After all, the Russians are not as crazy as the Chinese, so maybe there is still wild ginseng left.
Click the seeds."
Everyone in China knows the benefits of wild ginseng, but this is not necessarily the case abroad. Therefore, in Siberia, which has a vast territory and abundant resources, there may be a lot of wild ginseng.
Wild ginseng grows in barren mountains and ridges, and its "age" can be decades or even hundreds of years, making it relatively rare.
This kind of ginseng can greatly replenish vitality, but it is extremely expensive and is rarely used unless it is for severely ill patients with extremely weak constitutions.
The ginseng we often refer to usually refers to garden ginseng cultivated artificially in gardens.
According to different processing methods, garden ginseng can be divided into raw sun-dried ginseng, white ginseng and red ginseng.
Among them, raw sun-dried ginseng has mild medicinal properties, mainly tonifying qi, and is more suitable for people with insufficient qi and yin; white ginseng has the same effect as raw sun-dried ginseng, but the effect is slightly worse; red ginseng has warming properties and has a tonifying effect.
The effect of temperature and yang is more suitable for people with weak yang energy.
In addition, there is ginseng originating in North America, called American ginseng or American ginseng.
American ginseng is cold in nature and has the effect of benefiting Qi and promoting body fluids. It is suitable for people with weak fire or those who are easy to get angry.
In addition to garden ginseng and American ginseng, there are many Chinese medicinal materials with the word "ginseng" in them. Although they are not the same plant as ginseng, they can also be used to make tea and have the effect of replenishing qi and promoting blood circulation.
Both Codonopsis pilosula and Radix Pseudostellariae are sweet and mild in nature and have the effect of replenishing qi. Because Codonopsis pilosula also has the effect of replenishing blood, it is often used in combination with Angelica sinensis and Rehmannia glutinosa to treat anemia.
Radix Pseudostellariae, also called Boy's Ginseng, has a mild nature and is often used in children.
Although Salvia miltiorrhiza, Scrophulariaceae, Adenophora miltiorrhiza and Sophora flavescens are all cold in nature, their effects are different.
Among them, Salvia miltiorrhiza can activate blood circulation and remove blood clots, and is often used for coronary heart disease; Scrophulariaceae can nourish yin and clear away heat, and is often used for sore throat, cough, dry mouth, etc.; Adenophora miltiorrhiza has the effect of nourishing the lungs and promoting fluid production, and can be used in combination with Ophiopogon japonicus and Platycodon grandiflorum to treat
Cough due to lung deficiency and dryness; Sophora flavescens is a medicine for clearing away heat and drying dampness, and is mostly used for symptoms such as itchy skin and yellowish and thick vaginal discharge.
Looking at all the plants in nature, although the names are different, no plant can have 400 names. These aliases are named after the different attributes of the plant, the different characteristics of the different forms, and are officially recognized by experts and scholars.
The sum of the titles of common people.
The plant with the most names in China and even in the world is ginseng.
The "History of Ginseng" written by Tomon Imamura of Japan has a total of seven thick volumes, one of which is dedicated to "Ginseng Names", which can be called a grand view or encyclopedia. There are more than 170 names of ginseng in total, giving people a dazzling and noun-bombing feeling.
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This is the unique charm of ginseng, or it is a masterpiece of human interpretation, or it is the unique name from shape to type to the magic of the region.
There are so many synonyms for ginseng. In "Chinese Ginseng Culture", Sun Wencai dedicated a chapter to introduce the various names of ginseng, called "Synonyms of Ginseng":
"Shen Nong's Materia Medica" says: "One has a human title and one has a ghost title."
"Wu's Materia Medica" says: "One is a native essence, one is a sacred herb, one is yellow ginseng, one is blood ginseng, one is Renwei, and one is jade essence."
"Gu Shi Lei Yuan" calls ginseng "yellow silk" and "renjiao".