The price of Xuan Ginseng varies according to the place of origin and quality, and the price of one catty is about 100~120 yuan.
Xuan Shen belongs to the heat-clearing and blood-cooling (clearing heat to relieve blood heat) medicines, the family of Xuan Shen family plant Xuan Shen’s dried root, also known as Yuan Shen, Wu Yuan Shen.
It is sweet, bitter, salty and cold in nature, and enters the stomach meridian, kidney meridian and lung meridian, with the effect of cooling blood and nourishing yin, diarrhea and detoxification (removing fire and poisonous Qi in the body), and it is used in the treatment of eye redness, sore throat, heat illness and injury to yin, scrofula (mainly refers to lymph node nodule tuberculosis of the neck), warm poisonous spot (the warm and hot poisonous evils invade the human body and lead to the appearance of skin spots, plaques), diphtheria, bone steam and coughing, carbuncle, swollen and poisonous sore, etc. It is used both internally and externally to relieve heat in the blood.
Xuan Shen can be used internally and externally, but it should not be used together with Veratrum. Those who are allergic to ginseng should be cautious of using ginseng. If necessary, please use it under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, do not use it by yourself.