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Dear Sue & Ann,

Yes, many of Chinese herbs can grow in

different country. However, just watch out some of them is not good to grow

in different country, some of them event better quality. for example: same

jengsing, grow in china, it make higher blood pressure and less sleep, in

American it make low blood pressure and more sleep. In Australia?

I remember one story. Once, in Vietnam history, said that about three

hundred years ago, when China come to conquer Vietnam country. they catch

one big professional of Vietnam government, the China king wanted to

embarrassing the officer, he brought one Vietnamese to front of the officer

and said that Vietnamese is bad crime and ask the officer what he think

about his people. The officer answer : " the tangerine grow in South is

sweet, same tangerine grow in North would be sour. The China king praise

the Vietnamese officer that he is smart officer. So the king let him back

to his country.

We do not know which one is good to grow in the other country, so

we need experience and of course, in China they have more experience to

grow their herb in their country for more than five thousand years. Today,

the information of community of the people in the whole world is too quick,

so the experience hope to be know faster and better than the old time.

Nhung Ta

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Anne & Sue <annedoia

Chinese herb egroup

Wednesday, October 11, 2000 6:46 AM

 

 

re Cultivation of Chinese herbs in Australia

 

I am currently undertaking a feasibility study into growing Chinese herbs in

Australia and would like some help with information:

1. Are any Chinese herbs grown outside Asia ie. Europe or America? If

so with what success?

2. Are any Chinese herbs patents or other herb processing undertaken

outside China/Asia?

3. Are all you Chinese herbalists suspicious of non-Chinese grown

Chinese herbs?

4. What reassurance would you need to use herbs grown outside Asia? eg.

the results of clinical trials or bio-chemical assays, or just someone you

trust telling you they are OK to use.

5. Are you aware of any books/journals giving detailed horticultural

and processing guidelines for Chinese herbs in English or Chinese?

6. What evidence is there of increasing contamination of Chinese grown

herbal products similar to the fungicide on ginseng mentioned recently?

 

Any information or advice would be very welcome. Also thanks to everyone

for the ongoing interesting discussions about everything!

 

Sue Cochrane