The efficacy and function of red ginseng

Red fruit ginseng is a medicinal material and is quite common in life. We can eat red fruit ginseng appropriately. Since many people don’t know much about red fruit ginseng, let’s take a look at it below.

[Other names] Spider fruit, water chestnut

[Source] Medicinal material source: The root of the long-leaved bellflower of the Campanulaceae family.

[Original morphology] Long-leafed bell grass is a perennial upright or climbing herb with a stem height of up to 3m. The root is carrot-shaped. Usually the whole plant is hairless, hollow, with many long branches that spread out or droop. Leaves are opposite, occasionally in whorls of 3, and have short petioles; leaf blades are ovate, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 6-15cm long, 1-5cm wide, acuminate at the apex, and finely serrated at the margin. Flowers are usually solitary, terminal and axillary; pedicel or peduncle 1-10cm long; pedicel with a pair of filiform bracts in the upper middle part or at the base of the anther; calyx only attached to the lower part of the ovary, lobes usually 5, far apart, filiform or linear, with branched and slender teeth on the margin; corolla white or light red, tubular-bell-shaped, about 1cm long, 5-6-lobed to the middle, lobes ovate-triangular; stamens 5-6, filaments as long as anthers, filaments base wide and lamellar, margins with long hairs; style glabrous or without hair, stigma (4-)5-6-lobed, ovary (4-)5-6-chambered. The berries are spherical (4-)5-6 chambers, purple-black when ripe, and 5-10mm in diameter. Seeds are numerous and polyhedral. Flowering period is from July to October.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Growing in forests, bushes and grasslands below 1500m above sea level.

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet; slightly bitter; neutral

【Meridian】 Return to the lung meridian

【Functions and indications】It can replenish Qi for deficiency and relieve pain for phlegm. Mainly used for fatigue, qi deficiency, weakness, trauma, intestinal colic

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 15-30g, or soak in wine. For external use: take appropriate amount and mash it for application.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

After reading the above detailed introduction to the effects and functions of red fruit ginseng, I believe many friends already know the benefits of red fruit ginseng. It can be seen that red ginseng is very beneficial to our human body. If you need it, you might as well give it a try.