Panax ginseng can be used as a Chinese herbal medicine, but there are no authoritative studies showing its liver-damaging effects.
The medicinal source of Panax ginseng is the dried roots and rhizomes of Panax ginseng, a plant of the family Wujiaceae, which is sweet, slightly bitter and warm in nature. It belongs to the liver and stomach meridians. It has the efficacy of dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, and subduing swelling and resolving pain (eliminating swelling and pain). It can be used in the treatment of all kinds of hemorrhagic and blood stasis diseases, such as hematemesis, epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematemesis, bleeding in stool, bleeding from trauma and stabbing pain in chest and abdomen, swelling and pain in bruising.
Panax ginseng can be decocted and taken internally, or powdered and swallowed, and can also be ground and coated with juice, or powdered and applied externally, but its ability to activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis is strong, so pregnant women should be used with caution, and the bleeding of yin deficiency and blood heat should not be used alone, the specific use of which is recommended to be carried out under the guidance of a physician, and it is not recommended to use the herb blindly on one’s own.