Ren shen - Ginseng Root【Net Wt: 50g(2g x 25 Sachets)】

NPN 80096199

【Macroscopic Features】
Sun-dried ginseng: Root is fusiform or cylindrical, 3~15cm long, 1~2cm diameter. Externally grayish-yellow, upper portion or whole body has loose and shallow intermittent thick horizontal lines and obvious longitudinal wrinkles, lower portion has 2~3 lateral roots, with numerous thin and long rootlets which have unobvious tiny verruca. Rhizome is 1~4cm long, 0.3~ 1.5 cm diameter, often twisted and curved, with adventitious roots and loose indented stem scars. Relatively hard texture, fractured surface is pale yellowish-white, powdery, cambium rings are brownish-yellow, cortex has yellowish-brown spotted resin canal and radial cracks. Distinctive odor, slightly bitter, sweet taste.
Wild ginseng: main root and rhizome is equally long or relatively short, “人”shaped, rhombus or cylindrical, 2~10cm long. Externally grayish-yellow, with longitudinal wrinkles, upper portion has dense deep ringed horizontal lines, often has 2 lateral roots, rootlets is thin and long, clear and not messed, with obvious verruca. Rhizome is thin and long, upper portion has dense stem scars, adventitious root is relatively thick, similar to jujube seed.
Wild ginseng pieces: spherical or sub-spherical thin pieces, externally grayish-white, with “chrysanthemum lines,” powdery, light in weight, brittle texture. Distinctively aromatic odor.

【Properties】Neutral; sweet and slightly bitter taste, slightly warm.

【Channels (meridians) entered】spleen, lung, heart and kidney

【Functions】
Greatly supplements original qi, restores the pulse, secures desertion, supplements the spleen, benefits the lung, engenders body fluids, stops thirst, quiets the spirit, promotes intelligence. Apply to complete exhaustion due to physical weakness, cold limbs and weak pulse, poor appetite due to splenic deficiency, coughing with asthma due to pulmondeficiency, hydrodipsia due to depletion of body fluids, feverish dysphoria and diabetes, deficiency and weakness due to invalidism, palpitation and insomnia, impotence and uterus cold, cardiac failure, cardiogenic shock.