{"id":4828,"date":"2019-04-26T15:42:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T07:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bazaar.yn.cn\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2021-06-11T18:23:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T10:23:20","slug":"the-powerful-ginseng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bazaar.yn.cn\/?p=4828","title":{"rendered":"The Powerful Ginseng"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For thousands of years, health practitioners in China have relied on San Qi (also called Radix Pseudoginseng and Panax Notoginseng) to treat and support recovery from a wide range of health conditions. This traditional herb is so revered that the 1578 Compendium of Materia Medica (the most complete and comprehensive medical book ever written in the history of traditional Chinese medicine) referred to San Qi as \u201cmore precious than gold.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr.Su Bao.The expert of Sanqi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sanqi, often referred to as Pseudoginseng or Tianqi, is a relatively recent medicinal that officially joined the Chinese materia medica only during the 16th century. Due to its ability to treat all blood disorders it soared to great importance during Qing dynasty times\u2014the master herbalist Li Shizhen referred to it as Jinbuhuan (Not Even Exchanged for Gold), and some later herb primers went so far to call it \u201cthe king of all herbs\u201d\u2014a status it has maintained until today. It is the main ingredient of the well-known patent medicine Yunnan Baiyao, which was first marketed in 1902 and remains a favorite emergency remedy for acute bleeding disorders. Most American practitioners of Chinese medicine have this remedy in their medicinary, and know to take the \u201cred pill\u201d included in a standard bottle for cases of sudden and dramatic blood loss. Li Shizhen already remarked in his influential Bencao gangmu that \u201cin the South, this herb is used as the most important military medicine for external injuries caused by swords, knives, and arrows.\u201d One of the plant\u2019s oldest alternate names, therefore, is Shanqi\u2014\u201cthe mountain herb that glues wounds together like lacquer.\u201d During the Vietnam War, powdered Sanqi was still the primary battlefield remedy for Viet Cong soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n