What is the difference between Ginseng and Phytolacca?

Grass ginseng generally refers to parsley, which belongs to the genus Ferulae of Umbelliferae, and has not been artificially introduced and cultivated at present. What's the difference between it and Phytolacca?

What is the difference between Ginseng and Phytolacca?

1. Form

Different roots: grass ginseng root cylindrical, slender, root neck unbifurcated, there are withered leaf sheath fibers. Phytolacca root is enlarged, fleshy, inverted conical, the outer skin is yellowish or grayish brown, and the inner surface is yellowish white.

Stems and leaves are different: grass ginseng stems are thin, erect, with fine furrows, slightly rough, with sparse hairs, cauline leaves and lower stem leaves with short stalks, the base of the stalks expand into sheaths, leaf sheaths lanceolate, stick to stems; leaf blade outline is broadly ovate, Ternate-pinnatifid, ultimate segments linear. Phytolacca stem erect, Terete, with longitudinal grooves, fleshy, green or reddish purple, much branched. Leaf blade thinly papery, elliptic, long-elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic.

Flowers are different: grass ginseng petals light green, broadly ovate, outside pubescent; flowers polygamous, male flowers in the middle of inflorescences, female flowers on the edge, and bisexual flowers in the middle. Phytolacca filaments white, anthers elliptic, pink; flowers bisexual, ca. 8 mm in diam.; tepals 5, white, yellowish green, elliptic, ovate or oblong, apex obtuse.

two。 Environment

Grass ginseng grows on sand dunes and river beaches. Phytolacca is often wild in the foothills, forests, roadsides and behind houses, and is distributed in plains, hills and mountains.

3. Distribution

Grass is produced in the desert area north of Tianshan Mountain in Xinjiang. The Soviet Union, Kazakhstan and West Siberia are also distributed. Phytolacca is distributed from southwest to northeast of China, as well as in Korea, Japan and India.

Second, what is the effect of Phytolacca?

In traditional Chinese medicine, Phytolacca is used in traditional Chinese medicine because of its root. Traditional Chinese medicine thinks that it is cold, bitter and toxic, and has the effect of detumescence and detoxification. Therefore, it can be used in clinical treatment of edema, fullness, different stools and other disease symptoms such as sores and sores.