"Ginseng water" to make up for staying up late? Just a placebo!

Ginseng drinks are becoming the "new favorite" in the beverage industry and are attracting the attention
of many young people.
Recently, a milk tea brand has launched a new product called "domineering ginseng", which claims to be "reversible after staying up late" after drinking, and 12 bags of ginseng drinks cost 118 yuan, causing heated discussions
.
Previously, some new drinks that soaked whole ginseng as a selling point also once became a "tonic"
for young people to stay up late while maintaining health.

What is the medicinal effect of "ginseng water"? Can you really repair the physical damage caused by staying up late? The reporter interviewed experts to explain doubts
.

Good ginseng can replenish vitality, but staying up late for a long time is "irreversible"

The popularity of ginseng drinks stems largely from the need of young people to "fight the injury of
staying up late".
Netizen Xiao Liu said that due to the needs of work, he often stays up late, and after seeing the promotion of this type of drink on the Internet, he bought and drank, "the taste is sweet, there are some Chinese medicine, herbs and trees"
.
Although there was "no change or reaction" after drinking, Xiao Liu said that he would continue to buy: "I used it as a 'placebo'
.
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Some experts pointed out that ginseng as a tonic after staying up late has a certain effect
.
Gao Sande, deputy director of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Guangzhou Medical University, said: "Staying up late will cause people's 'qi' to be damaged to a certain extent, people with insufficient heart qi are prone to palpitations, people with insufficient lung qi are easy to cough and wheeze, and people with insufficient temper are easy to diarrhea.
.
.
Ginseng is a good herbal medicine in traditional Chinese medicine, which can greatly tonify the most fundamental 'vitality' of the human body, replenish qi and generate jin, and taking ginseng after staying up late will play a certain 'repair' role
.
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"The damage caused to the body by staying up late can be compensated for in the short term by supplementing sleep and eating antioxidant and vitamin-rich foods
.
" Zhao Dongxing, deputy chief physician of the Sleep Medicine Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, said that ginseng, as a kind of antioxidant food, will play a certain "repair" role
after staying up late.
However, it cannot completely "repair" the human damage caused by staying up late, "staying up late for a long time will lead to pathological changes in the human body, which is irreversible, and the best way to avoid the harm of staying up late is not to stay up late"
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Ordinary beverages are sold as health care or suspected of false advertising

The efficacy of ginseng "tonifying energy" is there, but the effect of "ginseng water" is questioned
.
The reporter learned that the retail price of a whole fresh ginseng bottle-steeped beverage on the market is nearly 20 yuan
.
Many consumers frankly said that the reason for buying was attracted by the promotion of "a whole ginseng" and health "staying up late", but they did not expect a bottle of daily drink of about 20 yuan to help the body
.

According to reports, ginseng, as a rare and precious Chinese herbal medicine, is often used together with other herbs as a medicine for Chinese medicine emergency relief and great tonic, but the varieties, years and origins of ginseng are different, and its efficacy is also uneven
.
Gao Sande said: "'Ginseng water' is low in price, extremely limited in efficacy, and far from meeting the requirements of
medicinal use.
”

In fact, according to relevant regulations, China's food categories can be divided into two categories
: general food and special food.
Among them, special foods include health foods, infant formula foods and formula foods for special medical purposes
.
At present, ginseng drinks on the market do not have the health food mark "blue hat" approved by the State Food and Drug Administration, so they are ordinary foods
.

In this regard, some experts pointed out that according to the first paragraph of Article 38 of China's "Regulations for the Implementation of the Food Safety Law", "foods other than health food shall not be claimed to have health care functions", if "ginseng water" takes health care as a selling point, or is suspected of false publicity
.