Real case study: 3 years ago, 54-year-old Mr. Chen suffered from cerebral infarction, hemiplegia, later by insisting on exercise, recovery is not bad, basically live with crutches can walk. Last year, just after winter, Mr. Chen suffered from cerebral infarction again and was lying in the hospital bed. Mr. Chen was so impressed that he stopped taking western medicine and started to eat Panax ginseng powder. Mr. Chen said he felt good about eating it. There was no special feeling, but Panax notoginseng powder tasted a little grassy. What I didn’t expect was that after only one year, Mr. Chen fell down again, and this time the cerebral infarction happened, which directly made him stay in ICU, and it was not easy to say whether he could be discharged safely, because this time it was a large cerebral infarction, and the sequelae were very huge, and it was more difficult for Mr. Chen’s recovery. First, can cerebral infarction take Panax ginseng powder or not? First of all, we have to understand what is Panax notoginseng powder? Panax pseudoginseng is warm in nature; it is also known as Tian Qi and Jin Bu Qi, and is a famous and valuable medicinal herb in China and abroad. In the “Compendium of Materia Medica”, it is written that “Ginseng is the first to nourish the qi, and Panax pseudoginseng is the first to nourish the blood, with the same taste and the same function. It has the effect of stopping bleeding, dispersing blood, and fixing pain, and can be used as a health care product in theory. According to some modern medical research and animal experiments, Panax ginseng powder is good for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. According to the theory of Chinese medicine, Panax notoginseng powder has the effect of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which is the basis of most of our cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, from this perspective, Panax ginseng powder is beneficial to cardiovascular diseases. But in fact, Panax notoginseng powder is more useful for prevention, rather than saying that if a cerebral infarction has already occurred, it can still be treated with Panax notoginseng powder alone. In clinical experiments, there is very little data to confirm that Panax ginseng powder can treat cardiovascular diseases, and there is no positive data from either Chinese or Western medicine that says brain infarction can be treated by Panax ginseng powder. If there are people on the market who loudly proclaim that Panax notoginseng powder can be used to treat cerebral infarction, such claims must be deceptive, and Panax notoginseng powder is not a necessary treatment drug for cerebral infarction. Second, to treat brain infarction, first of all, we have to determine the cause of brain infarction. There are two causes of brain infarction: one is the thrombus formed by the rupture of atherosclerotic plaque; the other is the thrombus caused by cardiac arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation. The two causes are different, and the corresponding treatments for brain infarction are also different: for the former type of clot, the main drugs are aspirin + statins. These two drugs can help anti-platelet aggregation, prevent thrombosis and stabilize plaque, and prevent aggravation of atherosclerosis; of course, the daily routine should be well coordinated and the three highs should be well controlled, and brain infarction is a long-term treatment, and for acute brain infarction, it needs to be treated with thrombolysis as soon as possible, or with stenting and embolization. The latter is mainly to prevent atrial fibrillation thrombosis, the more conventional drugs are warfarin, dabigatran, rivaroxaban and other drugs, for the eradication of atrial fibrillation, the prevention of thrombosis is very effective. With cerebral infarction, only regular medication can effectively prevent the recurrence of cerebral infarction, so daily attention must be paid to it. For the use of Panax ginseng powder, it is best to consume it after consultation with a doctor, and not to listen to the boasts of health care institutions, otherwise, Mr. Chen is the lesson. In addition to that, here are some contraindications to eating panax pseudoginseng powder: 1, because panax pseudoginseng powder has the effect of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, pregnant women cannot eat panax pseudoginseng powder; similarly, girls during menstruation should not eat panax pseudoginseng powder; 2, children under 14 years old are not suitable to eat panax pseudoginseng powder, after all, panax pseudoginseng powder is a tonic, and at this stage, children’s own development is relatively fast. At this stage, children’s own development is relatively fast, and it is enough to absorb the required nutrition from the daily diet. 3, panax pseudoginseng is warm in nature, if people with wind-heat colds eat panax pseudoginseng powder, it will aggravate the dryness and heat of the body, thus aggravating the symptoms of the cold, and friends during the cold period are advised not to eat panax pseudoginseng powder. 4, when eating panax pseudoginseng powder, try not to eat it together with white radish and strong tea, these kinds of food together will affect the effect of panax pseudoginseng powder. 5, when panax pseudoginseng do ingredients can be with and chicken, ribs together with soup to drink, note also do not eat with spicy and sour cold food, the effect will be greatly reduced.