American ginseng, also known as western ginseng, has the effect of replenishing qi and nourishing yin, clearing heat and generating fluids, and is used for internal heat and thirst (internal heat accompanied by symptoms such as overeating, drinking and urinating), dry mouth and throat, etc.; American ginseng in water is difficult to dissolve the active ingredient of the drug in the water, so it cannot achieve the original efficacy and effect of the drug, and it is recommended to follow the doctor’s instructions for the use of medication.
Radix Panax Ginseng is cool in nature, sweet in taste, slightly bitter, and belongs to lung, heart and kidney meridians. It can be used for deficiency of qi and yin, deficiency of heat and tiredness, coughing, phlegm and blood and other diseases.
Radix Panax Ginseng can be used for the treatment of heat injury to qi and yin, deficiency heat and fatigue, excessive sweating and thirst, or chronic coughing and lung deficiency, shortness of breath and spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the daytime, aggravated by sweating with a little movement), often combined with maitake and schizandra, etc. For the treatment of deficiency of yin and fire, coughing, wheezing, sputum and blood, combined with deficiency of qi and fatigue, it is often combined with bei sasanqua, Sichuan pei mother and other medicines.
Radix Panax Ginseng is not to be used with quatrefoil; caution should be taken for those who suffer from deficiency of middle yang, obstruction of cold and dampness (cold and dampness blocking the spleen and stomach in the central part of the body), and dampness-heat and heat-suffocation. Drugs should be used under the guidance of a physician, do not self-medication, to avoid causing adverse consequences.