Panax ginseng, as people in today’s time, can be considered magical to the extreme, so much so that it is a household name and quite well known. This can be on par with the wild mountain ginseng that was passed down in ancient times. In outpatient clinics, patients are prescribed Panax ginseng powder specifically for home brewing to prevent cerebrovascular disease. What diseases can it be used for? Today we will take a look at how it has been reformed and innovated in modern times. Panax pseudoginseng, in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, is sweet, slightly bitter and warm in nature, and its effects are to disperse blood stasis and stop bleeding, reduce swelling and fix pain. It is used for hemoptysis, vomiting blood, epistaxis, blood in stool, bleeding from collapse, bleeding from trauma, pain in chest and abdomen, and swelling and pain from bruises. When Panax notoginseng was first used, it was used to treat bruises, blood stasis, swelling and pain, and was generally used as a topical preparation. When the human body was cut by a sword and the bleeding did not stop, the root of Panax ginseng could be powdered and sprinkled, or the fresh product could be chewed and applied directly, and “the bleeding would stop immediately”. This is recorded in the “Compendium of Materia Medica” by Li Shizhen, a great herbalist of the Ming Dynasty, who said that panax pseudoginseng “stops bleeding, disperses blood and fixes pain, and can be chewed and applied to gold-edged sword wounds, bruises and sores, or mixed with powder, and the bleeding will be stopped. It is also used for vomiting blood, epistaxis, bleeding, dysentery, collapse, menstrual flow, postpartum malignant blood, blood transport, blood pain, red eyes, carbuncle, tiger bite, snake wound. “Panax ginseng, the recent time began to emerge, the southerners in the army used as a gold sores important medicine, cloud has a strange function. And also cloud where the staff pounding injury damage, bruising blood dripping, then chewed, fomentation (yǎn) (cover) that is to stop, the bruise is dissipated.” The magic of Panax ginseng is its ability to invigorate blood and stop bleeding. These two seemingly contradictory effects of Panax ginseng are both present. The theory of Chinese medicine is that the medicine of activating blood circulation and removing stasis is not conducive to stopping bleeding, because activating blood means speeding up blood flow, and speeding up blood flow will make it difficult to stop bleeding; just like the water of a river, we dredge the river, and the water flow will increase if the river is open, while the fast flow will put pressure on the river bank along the shore, and the risk of the river breaking the bank will increase. Panax pseudoginseng is equivalent to strengthening the river bank and dredging the river at the same time, so that the water flow is smooth and there is no risk of breakage. With the development of society, the functions and usage of Panax notoginseng are constantly changing, providing many available treatments for medicine. For example, what we often call “blood vessel flushing” and the injection in hospitals, the blood plugging or thrombosis injection, is made from the extract of Panax notoginseng, the total saponin of Panax notoginseng, which is used for stroke and hemiplegia, blood stasis and obstruction, atherosclerosis Cerebral infarction, cerebral embolism and other diseases. It is widely used in clinical practice and has become a powerful weapon in the battle against cerebrovascular diseases. There is no perfection in everything, and the same applies to Panax ginseng. Some people may say that panax pseudoginseng is so good and there are no side effects, so I should take more, right? Our advice to you is that it is best to use the medicine under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine doctor. Panax pseudoginseng is still a blood-stasis activator rather than a health care drug. In life, you can eat more of yam and coix seeds for both food and medicine without any problem, but Panax pseudoginseng should not be eaten as a meal. The TCM doctor can judge the condition of qi, blood, yin and yang of the patient’s body through the four diagnostic examinations, and can determine which people can and cannot take it. The home blindly take their own may be counterproductive, so do not follow the trend, but also need professional guidance to do.