What is the difference between raw Panax notoginseng and cooked Panax notoginseng
Panax notoginseng is a perennial upright herb of the genus Panax in the Araliaceae family, the main ingredient of Yunnan Baiyao, mainly produced in the deep mountains of Yunnan and Guangxi. Its effects can be summed up in six words: “stop bleeding, disperse blood stasis, and relieve pain”. It has always been used as an important medicine for trauma and incised wounds, and is rarely eaten as a tonic. There is no distinction between raw and cooked; only the method of consumption differs. Let us now take a look at the difference between raw Panax notoginseng and cooked Panax notoginseng!
Edible effects of raw Panax notoginseng
[Processing method] Powder made directly from the dried main root of Panax notoginseng.
[Medicinal effects] Stops bleeding and disperses blood stasis, lowers blood pressure, lowers blood lipids.
[Clinical indications] Used for blood disorders such as traumatic blood stasis, external bleeding, postpartum dizziness, vomiting blood, as well as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension.
[Method of eating raw] Take with warm boiled water. For daily health care, 2 to 5 grams each time, twice a day.
Edible effects of cooked Panax notoginseng
[Processing method] Put Panax notoginseng together with vegetable oil into a pot, heat over low heat until the Panax notoginseng turns yellow, then remove it. Do not use high heat, and do not heat for too long, to prevent the Panax notoginseng from burning.
[Medicinal effects] Nourishes blood and enriches the blood.
[Clinical indications] Used for symptoms such as physical weakness, poor appetite, neurasthenia, excessive fatigue, blood loss, and anemia. It has a good effect on postoperative patients and gynecological diseases such as dysmenorrhea in women.
[Method of eating cooked] 1. It can be stewed with chicken or meat soup, mixed into milk powder, or soaked in hot boiled water for a few minutes until cooked, then taken; 3 to 5 grams each time. 2. Boil soup with brown sugar and Angelica sinensis; after the Angelica sinensis is cooked, add fermented glutinous rice, crack in two eggs, and after the eggs are cooked, add cooked Panax notoginseng powder, then remove from the pot and eat.
Effects and functions of Panax notoginseng
[Nature and flavor] Sweet and slightly bitter in taste, warm in nature.
[Meridian entry] Enters the liver and stomach meridians.
[Effects] Disperses blood stasis and stops bleeding, reduces swelling and relieves pain. Used for symptoms such as hemoptysis, hematemesis, epistaxis, blood in the stool, abnormal uterine bleeding, external bleeding, stabbing pain in the chest and abdomen, and swelling and pain from falls.
1. Compendium of Materia Medica: Stops bleeding, disperses blood, and relieves pain. For metal wounds, arrow wounds, falls, beatings, and cane wounds with unstoppable bleeding, chew it thoroughly and apply it, or grind it into powder and sprinkle it on, and the bleeding will stop immediately. It also treats diseases such as hematemesis, epistaxis, bloody stool, bloody dysentery, incessant uterine bleeding, postpartum retention of lochia, blood dizziness and blood pain, red eyes, carbuncle swelling, tiger bites, and snake bites.
2. Ben Cao Qiu Zhen: Specifically enters the liver and stomach, and also enters the heart and large intestine. Also called Shanqi. Li Shizhen said that some say it can join incised wounds, like lacquer sticking to objects.
3. Ben Cao Cong Xin: Disperses blood and relieves pain, treats hematemesis, epistaxis, bloody dysentery, blood collapse, red eyes, and carbuncle swelling.