New to Chinese cooking-- How to use this herb?

[Zhi_Ruo]

I'm at the beginning of my journey with Chinese cooking and need some help identifying this ingredient. I see it popping up in some medicinal soups and the Chinese name is 五指毛桃。The best translation I've found for this is 'Five Fingers Peach' and I read online it might be some type of ginseng? I wish my Mandarin was good enough to understand the cooking sites on Baidu, Google translate is horrific. 

 

If anyone is familiar with the proper English name, flavor, and use of this herb, I'd really appreciate some insight so I better understand how to use it aside from my one soup recipe. Thanks! 

[abcdefg]

Welcome to the forum @Zhi_Ruo -- I've never used that herb, but I saw it called "root of the hairy fig" in a couple of places. 

 

I'll ask around Monday; see what I can find out. 

[Zhi_Ruo]

@abcdefg Google that name is bringing up a lot more information, thanks! 

[Dandy Jiang]

The name "五指毛桃" is correct. Here's what I found on Baidu:五指毛桃