人参的主要功效是什么？

人参味甘微苦，性平偏温，其功重在大补正元之气，以壮生命之本，进而固脱、益损、止渴、安神。故男女一切虚证，阴阳气血诸不足均可应用，为虚劳内伤第一要药。

在中国医学应用人参的四千年历史中，经典方剂包括独参汤、参附汤、生脉散、四君子汤、参苓白术散、补中益气汤等均显现出良好的临床效果。目前，一些现代生物技术提纯产品如参麦注射液、人参多糖注射液等已经广泛用于中枢神经系统和心血管系统中多种疾病的治疗，发挥其调节物质代谢、增强免疫功能和抗衰老等功能。

What is the Main Medical Effect of Ginseng?

Ginseng is sweet and slightly bitter in taste and mildly warm in property. The main medical effect of Ginseng is to tonifyhuman’s Yuan Qi and strengthen  human’s inner life power. In this way, human’sall kinds of deficiency syndromes can be relieved and removed. For example, byeatting Ginseng, men and women’s Qi and Blood conditions and functions would beimproved and many diseases due to physical and/or mental weakness can be cured.Therefore, Ginseng has been recognized and applied in China as the No. 1 medical herb in regulating human’s health condition.

During the four thousand years of Ginseng’spplications in China,important classic recipes which are solely or mainly composed of Ginseng includeDushen Decoction, Shen Fu Decoction, Shengmai Powder, Sijunzi Decoction, Shen LingBaizhu Powder, Buzhong Yiqi Decoction, etc. Currently, some purification forms ofGinseng with modern biotechnology have been presented in the market, such as ShenMai Injection,Ginseng Polysaccharide Injection. These modern TCM medicines made ofGinseng have already been widely used to treat a variety of diseases in centralnervous system and cardiovascular system to effectively regulate human’s metabolism and enhance human’s immune functions and anti-aging functions.