Contraindications for eating ginseng, contraindications for eating ginseng

Have you ever learned what the taboos of eating ginseng are? Ginseng is a very tonic medicinal material, and there are many ways to eat it in a variety of ways, and many people will use it to make soup, so are there any contraindications for eating ginseng? I have carefully sorted out the taboos of eating ginseng for you, I hope it will help you.

1. Excessively weak patients

There is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine: "Deficiency is not replenished", although ginseng is suitable for qi deficiency, but if the body is too weak, eating ginseng may not be beneficial to the body.

2. Women during menstruation

Ginseng is not suitable for consumption during menstruation, so if you need to use it, you must consult a qualified and professional TCM practitioner first.

3. People with colds and infections

For patients with colds and infections, if there are still diseases in the body, then eating ginseng is easy to make up for the diseases and make the disease worse. Unless the body is already weak and infected, then the Chinese medicine practitioner will use it according to the situation.

4. People who are moody and have high blood pressure

If you are often prone to high mood, excitement, irritability, red face and thick neck, easy to get angry, hot body, or have very high blood pressure, frequent constipation (dry and hard stools), people with the above conditions may worsen the original symptoms if they consume ginseng.

Ginseng is drunk with what to make tea with

1. Ginseng and deer antler velvet

Ginseng and deer antler tablets are particularly good when paired together to make tea, ginseng and deer antler tablets are Chinese herbal medicines with nourishing effects, they are combined to make tea and drink will make the nourishing effect more outstanding, ginseng can replenish the qi, deer antler tablets can nourish the essence and blood, they make tea together, and have a significant alleviating effect on the deficiency of qi and blood or physical weakness of the human body.

2. Ginseng and wolfberry

Ginseng and wolfberry are also the ideal partners for making tea, they are paired together to make tea, not only can the human body absorb rich nutrients but also enhance the body's immunity, the ginsenosides in life and the wolfberry polysaccharides in wolfberry can promote the regeneration of immune cells after being absorbed by the human body, enhance the body's immune function, and low immunity is a set of ginseng and wolfberry to make tea drink can make the situation better.

3. Ginseng angelica and astragalus

Ginseng can also be used with angelica and astragalus and other Chinese medicinal materials together to make tea, angelica can nourish qi and blood, improve the human body's hematopoietic function, and astragalus can alleviate the lack of qi in the human body, life is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine that can greatly replenish vitality, they can be combined with water to drink can effectively alleviate human body weakness, can enhance human body quality and improve human health.

What are the contraindications for drinking ginseng tea

Although ginseng tea is good, it is not suitable for everyone, because it is a tonic tea with excellent efficacy, those who are strong and healthy are forbidden to drink ginseng tea, otherwise their bodies will have a variety of adverse reactions, and young infants and adolescents in the development period are also forbidden to drink ginseng tea. People with inflammation or indigestion in the body and people suffering from constipation are also contraindicated to use ginseng to make tea, they can not absorb the nutrients of ginseng to make tea, and it will also have some adverse effects on the body.

1. Taking ginseng should be treated according to the treatment principle of "deficiency is supplemented, and actual discharge is discharged", so high fever, dry stool, red yellow urine, yellow tongue coating should not be used; In addition, healthy children taking ginseng and ginseng supplements are not conducive to normal development and are prone to precocious puberty, so they should be avoided.

2 Studies have found that ginseng contains damalanediol sugar and triglycol glycosides, and when taken in large doses continuously, people can suffer from "ginseng abuse syndrome", which can cause central nervous system excitation, resulting in insomnia, neurasthenia, high blood pressure, easy irritability, or manifested as depression, loss of appetite, low blood pressure, allergies and other symptoms.

3 ginseng can promote human metabolism, can be anti-aging, ginseng octycoside can play a warm role in the human body, can nourish the body, but ginseng has an excitatory effect on the cerebral cortex, taking ginseng at night is easy to cause insomnia and drinking fullness, so it is taboo to take ginseng at night.

4Tea contains a large amount of tannic acid, caffeine and other components, which are prone to chemical reactions with the ingredients in ginseng, resulting in precipitation, which leads to reduced efficacy.

Ginseng is a kind of qi tonic medicine, if there is no symptom of qi deficiency and take it casually, it is not suitable for caution. In addition, ginseng is not suitable for everyone. Ginseng should be consumed purposefully under the guidance of a doctor or licensed pharmacist.

Let's take a look at the contraindications of ginseng consumption!

1. Patients with arteriosclerosis, high blood viscosity, insomnia, gastric disease, cholecystitis, gallstones and hypertension; People with a short temper and a red face should not eat ginseng; People with fever should not eat red ginseng and wild ginseng; People with spleen and stomach deficiency should not eat American ginseng; Not suitable for children and allergies.

2. Ginseng should not be abused, some people make ginseng as tea in a thermos cup all year round, or use ginseng as a chewing flavor to guess sugar and chew it all year round, which is an abuse of ginseng. Overdose can easily cause ginseng poisoning.

3. Whether it is frying or stewing, avoid using hardware cooking utensils, especially copper and iron utensils.

4. After taking ginseng, avoid eating radish (including white radish and green radish) and all kinds of seafood.

5. Avoid drinking tea after taking ginseng, especially strong tea, especially for patients with nervousness or neurasthenia.

Ginseng is sweet, slightly bitter, and lukewarmIt has the effect of greatly replenishing vitality, invigorating the spleen and lungs, quenching thirst, and calming the nerves and intellectIt is used for qi deficiency and desire to get rid of syndrome, lung and spleen qi deficiency syndrome, injury and thirst, palpitations, insomnia, etc.

Ginseng mainly contains ginsenosides, ginseng polysaccharides, amino acids, organic acids, trace elements, etc. Ginseng has an excitatory and inhibitory effect on the nervous systemIt has the effects of enhancing memory, improving sleep and mood, anti-fatigue, cardiotonic, anti-myocardial ischemia, vasodilation and regulating blood pressure, anti-shock, lowering blood lipids, lowering blood sugar, delaying aging, liver protection, anti-ulcer, hemostasis, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, anti-tumor, etc. In addition, ginseng also has effects such as regulating skeletal and smooth muscle activity.

Chinese patent medicines containing ginseng include: ginseng gui spleen pills, ginseng buxin pills, ginseng guben pills, ginseng spleen strengthening pills, ginseng yangrong pills, ginseng deer antler pills, ginseng polysaccharide injection, shulanxin injection (ginseng stem and leaf glycosides), ginseng qi injection, ginseng fu injection, ginseng wheat injection, etc.

1.Physicochemical contraindications

Studies have shown that ginseng mainly contains ginsenosides and their saponins, which are easily hydrolyzed by acids, enzymes, metal ions, etcIt should not be used in combination with vitamin C, niacin, glutamic acid, gastric enzyme mixture, dilute hydrochloric acid and other acidic Western medicines, as well as Western medicines such as potassium and magnesium aspartate, so as not to cause saponin decomposition, so that the efficacy of the drug is reduced. In addition, there are contraindications between ginseng-containing traditional Chinese medicine injection preparations and some Western medicine injections.

2.Pharmacological contraindications

Studies have shown that ginseng has a cardiotonic effect, which can directly excite the myocardium, and cardiac glycosides are prone to cardiac glycoside poisoning when combined with cardiac glycosides; Ginsenosides can dilate blood vessels and antagonize vasoconstriction caused by calcium chloride and norepinephrine; Ginseng ethanol extract has antihypertensive effect, and atropine can antagonize the antihypertensive effect of ginseng; Ginseng has the effect of improving blood rheology and antithrombosis, and should not be used in combination with anticoagulants, so as not to increase the risk of bleeding; Ginseng can stimulate the central nervous system, can antagonize the effect of central inhibitors, and should not be combined; It should also not be used in combination with camphor, caffeine and other central stimulants for a long time to avoid ginseng abuse syndrome; It should not be used in combination with monoamine oxidase inhibitors (such as phenelzine), and patients with phenelzine maintenance** may have adverse reactions such as irritability, insomnia, headache, tremor, and visual hallucinations if they take ginseng again.

This article is excerpted from"Practice of Rational Use of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine"., People's Medical Publishing House, Editor-in-Chief:Zhang Bing。Organized by human health and traditional Chinese medicine.