After entering the era of short videos, people have more ways to receive information. By watching a video, they can learn some cold knowledge in life, or buy the information they need, and their horizons have become broader, especially for the flowers and plants around us, and their cognition is deeper. I often hear friends discussing which plants in rural areas are medicinal materials. This is a good thing, but there are limited online popular science, and some information is not so accurate. For example, it is inappropriate to call Pueraria root "Asian ginseng".
Some plants can indeed use certain nicknames to highlight the origin, value, etc. For example, burdock is called " Oriental Ginseng ". This is telling you that burdock was once widely planted in Japan and is very popular. In this way, the information on the place name has been captured by us, but the skin of the Pueraria root and ginseng are really not matched. Let me tell you some personal opinions below.
Pueraria root is an anti-expression medicine
Lao Xie wrote about the medicinal value of Pueraria root. To sum up, there are a few Chinese medicine information. It is the dry root of wild kudzu or sweet kudzu vine. It has the functions of relieving muscles and reducing fever, promoting salivation and increasing yang. In terms of its function, it has no connection with ginseng. One anti-expression and the other replenishes qi. This is not on the same "channel". Medicinal materials without intersection should not be connected here.
Although Pueraria root and ginseng have the characteristics of "using roots as medicine", their appearance and shape are different. There are many such medicinal materials, and it is impossible for all underground roots to be connected together and are classified as the same type of medicinal materials. Obviously, Pueraria root does not have so many roots. Some wild kudzu have better growth, and its roots are as long as half a meter. In comparison, it is difficult for ginseng to reach such a length, so don't mess them up.
price gap is too big
Ginseng is a valuable medicinal material, Pueraria root is not. I can check the prices of these two medicinal materials in the near future. I can refer to it appropriately. The price of ginseng is 171.65 yuan per catty, while Pueraria root is only 5.01 yuan per catty. This is not a problem of two or three times. The data is too disparate. Of course, the price of Chinese medicine will fluctuate with time, but no matter how it changes, these two medicinal materials will not intersect. From the price point of view, Pueraria root is beaten by ginseng every minute, so I think it is inappropriate to make Pueraria root "Asian ginseng". These data come from Huinong.com. Interested friends can check it.
The difference in resources
From the perspective of resources, Pueraria root is a bit overflowing. In rural areas, it is flooded to the point of being disgusted by people, but people cannot eradicate it. It can be found in the fields and by the mountains. Its distribution area spans the north and south, and it is distributed from the northeast to our Guangxi. Ginseng has high environmental requirements. It grows in dense forests on the hillside and is distributed in various northeastern provinces. Such resource differences are destined to make Pueraria root unable to compare with ginseng.
Friends, some information on the Internet is unreliable. Calling Pueraria root "Asian ginseng" will make people mistakenly think that the two can be used interchangeably. In fact, there is a very different difference. Forward it to the people around you to understand!
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