Japanese Ginseng
Panax Pseudo - Ginseng Var. Japonicus
Xia Ye Zhu Jie Shen

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Slightly bitter; sweet; warm

Part(s) used

Rhizome

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To supplement vacuity, relieve cough and dispel phlegm, stanch bleeding and dissipate stasis, disperse swelling and relieve pain.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Weakness during convalescence, inappetence, vacuity taxation cough, hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, hematuria, aberratio mensium, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, concretion and conglomeration, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, postpartum stasis stagnation abdominal pain, knocks and falls, pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, swollen welling abscess, hemorrhoids, poisonous snake bite.