Bitter ginseng root refers to the Chinese herb bitter ginseng, which has the effects of clearing heat and drying dampness, diuretic, insecticide and itching, and is useful in treating damp-heat diarrhea (diarrhea caused by feeling damp-heat evil), jaundice, blood in the stool, damp-heat gonorrhea, and urinary incontinence.
Bitter ginseng is the dried root of bitter ginseng, which is bitter in taste and cold in nature, and belongs to the meridians of heart, liver, stomach, bladder and large intestine. Bitter ginseng has a strong bitter and cold nature, which can clear heat and dry dampness as well as diuretic, and can treat many kinds of dampness-heat syndrome. Treatment of damp-heat accumulation (dampness and heat in the body of each other) stomach and intestines, abdominal pain and diarrhea, can be used alone with bitter ginseng pills, or with the wood with the use of, such as bitter ginseng pills.
Bitter ginseng is used with gardenia and gentian herb to treat jaundice due to dampness-heat. It can be used together with Radix et Rhizoma Shengdi and Rhizoma Dioscoreae to treat hemorrhage in stool and hemorrhoids. This product is both heat-clearing and diuretic, often used with psyllium, stoneweed, gardenia and other herbs to treat damp-heat accumulation of urinary incontinence (dysuria), urinary closure, burning and astringent pain.
Bitter ginseng should not be used with veratrum, and is contraindicated for those with cold spleen and stomach. To treat diseases with bitter ginseng, it should be used under the guidance of a professional doctor, and should not be used blindly on its own.