西洋参与中国人参参根虽都是滋补强壮药,但它们的药性和药效却各有特点。中国人参性温,味甘微苦,具有“大补元气、益血生津、宁神益智”之功能。而西洋参性寒,味苦微甘,有“益肺阴、清虚火,生津止渴”之功能,主治阴虚发热,咳嗽咯血,虚火牙痛,口渴津少等症。西洋参比人参的药效要缓和, Although both Western and Chinese ginseng roots are nourishing and robust, their medicinal properties and pharmacodynamics have their own characteristics. Chinese ginseng is warm, sweet and slightly bitter, with the function of “supplementing vitality, benefiting blood and benefiting the body and nourishing the nerves.” The ginseng cold, bitter taste slightly sweet, “benefit the lungs, Qingxiao fire, thirst quencher,” the function, attending yin deficiency fever, cough, hemoptysis, virtual fire toothache, thirst and other less embolism. Western reference ginseng efficacy to ease,