Analysis on the Clinical Application Characteristics of Ginseng in ZHENG Chongguang's Supu Yi'an
ZHENG Chongguang was a famous doctor in Jiangsu and Zhejiang during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.Supu Yi'an is a collection of medical records written in his later years,and its application of ginseng is particularly exquisite.Among the 184 medical cases in the Supu Yi'an,143 of them contain ginseng.ZHENG Chongguang has fully reflected the clinical application characteristics of ginseng,which can be summed up as"use ginseng to save the deficiency of Yang""ginseng functioning as warming the spleen and stomach and replenishing the deficiency""returning Yang and benefiting Qi,combined with the use of Sini Decoction"and"defying the current trend and skillfully using ginseng".