Text/Yangcheng Evening News All Media Reporter Lin Qingqing
Correspondent Liping Song
In autumn, the dryness evil is more abundant, which is most likely to hurt the Yin and Jin, causing people to experience discomfort such as dry throat, thirst, dry eyes, dry throat, dry and itchy skin, etc. It’s easier for people to do so.
Many people like to use the traditional Chinese medicine that nourishes yin and promotes body fluids – Radix ginseng to recuperate at this time. Professor Huang Suiping, a famous traditional Chinese medicine practitioner in Guangdong Province and the academic leader of the Spleen and Stomach Diseases Department of the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, reminded that there are southern and northern points of ginseng, with different effects and different usages.
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The north and south sea ginseng have different effects
Huang Suiping introduced that, in fact, Nansha and Beisha ginseng are two kinds of traditional Chinese medicine. Although they have the same name, Nansha and Beisha ginseng are not of the same family, and their effects are different. In the prescription, the medicine of Radix Radix is usually prefixed with the words “South” and “North”.
The name of ginseng was first recorded in the “Shen Nong’s Materia Medica”, and the true division of ginseng from north to south began in the Qing Dynasty. In the early Qing Dynasty, Wang Ang’s “Ben Cao Bei Yao” made a note on the ginseng bar that “the true northern part is rare… Radix ginseng is divided into two types, the north and the south. South and North.
Both types of ginseng are Yin-nourishing medicines, but each has its own strengths. Zhang Bingcheng made a simple distinction between the efficacy of two kinds of ginseng in “Ben Cao Bi Du”: “The power of clearing and nourishing is inferior to that of the north, and the nature of moisturizing and descending is not as good as that of the north.” Ginseng is strong, moisturizing and reducing vigor, Beisha Ginseng is strong.
However, Huang Suiping reminded that Nansha and Beisha ginseng are all slightly cold, and those with deficient constitution should eat as little as possible.
Nansha ginseng tends to nourish yin, moisten the lungs and relieve cough
Nansha ginseng tends to nourish yin and clear heat, moisten the lungs and relieve cough. It has better compatibility with mulberry leaves, Anemarrhena, and Ophiopogon japonicus.
Dryness is the Qi of Autumn, and the pathogenic dryness mostly invades the human body through the fur, mouth and nose, and then invades the lungs, which is prone to exogenous dry cough. In addition, wind, cold, and dampness can invade the human body, injuring the body and transforming dryness, so the dry cough will not heal when the cold and heat are stimulated and the seasons change.
Especially in the Guangdong area, the residual heat of summer still exists and the air humidity decreases. People who usually like spicy food and are accustomed to staying up late are prone to damage the yin fluid in the body, or the constitution of yin deficiency or prolonged illness. , Acute febrile disease consumes yin, the lung and stomach are deficient, and there is dryness inside. Therefore, in the event of dry weather, internal and external pathogens are combined, which can easily cause the lungs to lose their power and cause dry cough.
Huang Suiping said that dryness can also be divided into warm and cool. Nansha ginseng is good at treating warm and dry cough. Common symptoms include: headache and body heat, dry cough without phlegm, low and sticky expectoration, dry and sore throat, Dry nose and lips, chest fullness and hypochondrium pain, upset and thirst, white thin and dry tongue coating, and red tongue tip.
Recommended Medicinal Diet: Nansha Shenchuanbei Pig Lung Soup
Materials: 15 grams of Nansha ginseng, 5 grams of Chuanbei, 3 slices of ginger, and 300 grams of pig lung.
Methods: Wash the pig lungs and cut them into pieces; wash the ginseng; smash the scallops. Put all the ingredients into a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, simmer for 1 hour, season and serve. Drink soup and eat pig lungs.
Efficacy: Nourishes the yin, moistens the lungs and relieves cough.
Huang Suiping’s comment: According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, pig lungs are sweet in taste and mild in nature, and have the functions of relieving cough, tonifying deficiency and nourishing lungs. Nansha ginseng and Chuanbei, which can relieve phlegm and cough in the lungs, are suitable for people with dry cough due to lung heat and yin deficiency.
Northern ginseng tends to nourish yin, promote body fluid and benefit the stomach
Stomach is wet soil, like moisturizing and hate dryness. Beisha ginseng specializes in entering the “stomach”, and it is partial to nourishing yin, promoting body fluid and benefiting the stomach. It is used for dry throat, thirst, epigastric pain, noisy retching, etc. with insufficient stomach yin. it is good.
Autumn is a dry season. If it is too dry, it will lead to excessive loss of body fluid, which is more common for people with yin deficiency constitution. In the autumn, the air of heaven and earth begins to converge, and the air of yang heat begins to sink and hide in the ground. Corresponding to the human body, the same is true. The human lung qi begins to converge, and the yang qi begins to hide in the body from the surface of the muscles. At this time, people with yin deficiency are more likely to be hot and stagnant, so their throat is dry and thirsty, and they always want to eat something cold. , Ice, after eating a little warm food, you will feel a dull pain in the stomach, always feel hungry, but do not want to eat, even nausea and retching, some people will sweat at night, such people often have red tongue and little coating , pulse count.
Recommended Medicinal Diet: Dendrobium Pork Belly Soup
Materials: 15 grams of North American ginseng, 15 grams of Dendrobium, 3 slices of ginger, 300 grams of pork belly.
Methods: Wash the pork belly and cut it into pieces; wash the northern ginseng and dendrobium. Put all the ingredients into a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, simmer for 1 hour, season and serve. Drink soup and eat pork belly.
Efficacy: Nourishes yin, invigorates body and stomach.
Source | Yangcheng Evening News·Yangcheng Pie
Editor | He Ning
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