The efficacy and function of snow ginseng

Do you know what snow ginseng is? It is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. There are many records about it in ancient medical books. Snow ginseng has many medicinal values ​​and can be used to treat some discomfort symptoms in our body. Let us learn about the effects and functions of snow ginseng in detail.

[Other names] Iron brush (Guizhou Folk Prescriptions and Medicines Collection), blood ginseng (Guizhou Herbal Medicine Survey), red safflower, red bitter thorn (Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine).

[Source] It is the root of the leguminous plant Indigofera pubescens .

[Original morphology] Shrub, up to 3 meters high, with yellow long hairs all over, pinnate leaves 10 to 20 cm long; 41 to 51 leaflets, alternate, oblong-lanceolate, 25 mm long, densely covered with fine hairs; stipules lanceolate. The racemes are axillary, usually longer than the leaves; the flowers are purple-red; the calyx is small, oblique, with 5 calyx teeth; the corolla is 8 mm long; there are 10 stamens, bipartite; the ovary is sessile, and the style is short and incurved. The pod is cylindrical, 3 to 4 cm long, densely covered with soft hairs, and contains 5 seeds.

【Habitat distribution】Grows wild in mountains. Distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places.

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet and bitter, warm.

【Functions and indications】Tonify deficiency, promote blood circulation, and consolidate deficiency. Treats metrorrhagia, chronic dysentery, trauma, rheumatism, and ulcers that do not heal for a long time

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 0.5-1 liang; or stew with meat.

[Additional prescription] ① Treating typhoid fever, prolonged diarrhea and physical weakness: 2 liang of blood ginseng. Steam the chicken or stew the meat.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Guizhou Folk Prescriptions and Medicines Collection"

Snow ginseng is a medicinal material that has existed for a long time. It is recorded in many Chinese medicine books, which shows that snow ginseng does have good medicinal value.