Guest guest Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 All, I mentioned that American Ginseng was not warmly accepted by all Chinese physicains but I couldn't remember where I read it. It is in the newest Bensky page 823. Professor of Honolulu, HI 808-349-8219 www.herbsandmore.photostockplus.com Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 I know many people on this list know some of the US history of xi yang shen, but it may be worth capsulizing for you (so to speak, even if you don't have LU/SP yin or qi xu). Among whites, a Jesuit priest in Quebec is credited with first noticing the value of the plant. Back in the 1st century of this country, wild xi yang shen was one of the very top export commodities, alog with corn (sometimes in distilled form), cotton, tobacco and hemp. Daniel Boone opened up much of the Kentucky trail hunting for wild seng. It was only some moldy boatloads of it going to China that turned it (due to their ensuing doubt about the quality of it) from a major into a minor commodity. Still it's pretty major (the cultivated, that is) if you live in say, Wisconsin. The value the Chinese see in it as I've heard is that is's a a great spleen qi tonic but is yin tonifying too, so useful in cases such as post febrile dehydration. Perhaps combining some of the best of the spleen qi and kidney yin tonifying schools of herbalism. I know this is redundant to many but having tried some wild xi yang shen (just to give it a go -it was pretty expensive even then- before it was so un-PC) it is truly an amazing and very cerebrally active root. No wonder it's endangered ... . Gus Turpin -- In , > wrote: > > All, > > I mentioned that American Ginseng was not warmly accepted by all Chinese physicains but I couldn't remember where I read it. It is in the newest Bensky page 823. > > > > > > Professor of > Honolulu, HI > 808-349-8219 > > www.herbsandmore.photostockplus.com > > > Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 One of my chinese lecturers told me that when he was young and first studying chinese medicine, (probably in the early 1960's or so) that they were told that the official government position in China was that Xi Yang Shen was actually not really " native " to the US but was introduced by Chinese immigrants who cultivated Ren Shen, and then it evolved or hybridised or something into American Ginseng. Regards, Lea. , " Gus Turpin " <tonics@c...> wrote: > > I know many people on this list know some of the US history of xi > yang shen, but it may be worth capsulizing for you (so to speak, even > if you don't have LU/SP yin or qi xu). > Among whites, a Jesuit priest in Quebec is credited with first > noticing the value of the plant. > Back in the 1st century of this country, wild xi yang shen was one > of the very top export commodities, alog with corn (sometimes in > distilled form), cotton, tobacco and hemp. Daniel Boone opened up much > of the Kentucky trail hunting for wild seng. It was only some moldy > boatloads of it going to China that turned it (due to their ensuing > doubt about the quality of it) from a major into a minor commodity. > Still it's pretty major (the cultivated, that is) if you live in say, > Wisconsin. > The value the Chinese see in it as I've heard is that is's a a great > spleen qi tonic but is yin tonifying too, so useful in cases such as > post febrile dehydration. Perhaps combining some of the best of the > spleen qi and kidney yin tonifying schools of herbalism. I know this > is redundant to many but having tried some wild xi yang shen (just to > give it a go -it was pretty expensive even then- before it was so > un-PC) it is truly an amazing and very cerebrally active root. No > wonder it's endangered ... . Gus Turpin > > -- In , > > wrote: > > > > All, > > > > I mentioned that American Ginseng was not warmly accepted by all > Chinese physicains but I couldn't remember where I read it. It is in > the newest Bensky page 823. > > > > > > > > > > > > Professor of > > Honolulu, HI > > 808-349-8219 > > > > www.herbsandmore.photostockplus.com > > > > > > Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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