There is no such thing as drinking American ginseng several times a week. If you use American ginseng to treat diseases, you should be medicated by your doctor according to your condition, and you should not take the medicine by yourself to avoid damaging your body. American ginseng has the effect of tonifying qi and nourishing yin, clearing heat and generating fluids. As a qi tonic drug, American ginseng is sweet, slightly bitter and cool in nature, and belongs to heart, lung and kidney meridians. It is mainly used in treating qi deficiency and yin deficiency, deficiency heat and tiredness, coughing, phlegm and blood, internal heat and thirst (internal heat accompanied by symptoms such as excessive food, drink and urine), dry mouth and throat. If treating heat injury to qi and yin, deficiency heat and tiredness, or long-term cough and lung deficiency, qi and yin injury, dry cough with little phlegm, short breath and spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the daytime, aggravated by sweating with a little movement), it is often used with maitake, schizandra, etc., in order to replenish the qi and nourish the yin; for treating yin deficiency and fire (deficiency of yin and essence in the body, with the appearance of hyperactivity of fire in the body), cough, asthma, phlegm and blood, accompanied by deficiency of qi and lack of strength, it is often used with bei sasanqua, Sichuan shellac, etc., in order to nourish the yin and benefit the qi and stop coughing and stopping bleeding, etc. Precautions, should not be used in conjunction with Veratrum. It should be used in accordance with medical advice.