So, can hypertensive patients take ginseng or not? Generally speaking, we do not recommend ginseng to hypertensive patients. After all, in Chinese medicine, ginseng is a tonic medicine, which has the functions of tonifying the vital energy, nourishing the spleen and benefiting the lung, generating fluid and calming the mind. However, ginseng is too strong a tonic, and overdose can lead to diarrhea, rash, insomnia, nervousness, elevated blood pressure, depression, hypersexuality (or hypogonadism), headache, palpitations, and other adverse effects. Many people will use ginseng alone without knowing it, but they do not know that ginseng alone, such as Doshen Tang, can only be used when the vital energy is weak and wants to be taken off, when the energy is short and the spirit is tired, and when the pulse is critical and wants to die, and for some people who just want to tonic the body, the effect is too much, not to mention that they also suffer from high blood pressure. Therefore, in general, we do not recommend patients to take ginseng on their own. If a patient has high blood pressure, he or she should be more careful. If you must take it, it must be approved by a doctor and used in combination with other medications. Like this old patient, I suggested him to use a small dose of ginseng with appropriate amount of Atractylodes Macrocephala, Wu Wei Zi and Mai Dong, which can tonify, moisten and astringent in one, benefit the qi and nourish the yin, produce fluid and quench thirst, astringent yin and stop sweating. Of course, patients with hypertension should remember to monitor blood pressure changes frequently during the process of taking it to prevent it from rising.