Ginseng can be taken for cough caused by lung and spleen deficiency. Ginseng is mainly used to tonify the lung and spleen organs, replenish qi and generate fluids, and is often used in the treatment of coughing, coughing up phlegm, shortness of breath, and hypophagia, which are caused by lung and spleen deficiencies. Ginseng is a traditional Chinese medicine, belonging to the lung, spleen and heart meridians, slightly warm, sweet and slightly bitter in taste. Its effects are to replenish vital energy (replenish the body’s root qi), restore the normal pulse (restore the normal pulse to prevent material detachment), replenish the spleen and lung (replenish the spleen and lungs), promote the production of blood (replenish the body’s water and blood), and tranquilize the spirit and promote wisdom (stabilize the spirit and promote intellectual development). It is used in treating deficiency of body and blood, cold limbs and weak pulse, deficiency of spleen with little food, deficiency of lung with asthma and cough, thirst due to injury of fluids, thirst due to internal heat (internal heat accompanied by symptoms such as eating, drinking and urinating), deficiency of qi and blood, deficiency of long term illness, palpitation and insomnia, impotence and coldness of the uterus. It has the effect of replenishing the vital energy (replenishing the root energy of the body), replenishing the lungs and the spleen, replenishing the vital energy and generating fluids, so it can be used clinically to treat cough, cough and phlegm, asthma, and hypophagia caused by deficiency of the lungs and the spleen. Therefore, ginseng can be taken for cough caused by deficiency of lung and spleen, but ginseng can not be used for other types of cough, ginseng can not be used with veratrum, contraindications are still unclear, and adverse reactions are still unclear. If you have any discomfort symptoms, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible to be guided by the doctor to use the medicine, do not blindly take ginseng, so as not to delay the condition.