Wild versus cultivated ginseng

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Another story...

my great grandmother was an herbalist who found a " 100 year old ginseng

root " .

The villagers said that she could live to a hundred because of that.

She lived to 95, only because she fell down some stairs.

Otherwise, she would have made it.

 

In Korea they say that the " wild ginseng " pick you to pick them.

They will only let you find them, if they want you to.

I've found that to be true about a lot of plants in the wild,

except of course the weeds that grow everywhere, like ai ye.

 

Has anyone tasted some of this " wild ginseng " ?

I know it can run up to the thousands $...

 

 

 

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:30 PM, G Hudson <crudo20 wrote:

 

> Very cool. I asked my mentor once about wild vs. cultivated Ren Shen.

> He told me a couple things - he said that the top quality Ren Shen

> was like CPR. It was very expensive - one piece was more valuable

> than a truckload of cultivated root. Competition for the wild top

> grade was so fierce that the harvesters would go out with 5 to 7 men

> and usually come back 1 or 2 short. I don't know if they are just

> stories or not, but when one root could feed a few families for a

> year, I don't think it's too far fetched.

>

> Geoff

>

>

> --- In

<%40>,

> " bill_schoenbart "

> <plantmed2 wrote:

> >

> > Wenzheng Huang is a specialist in nephrology and urology in Tainjin

> > University Hospital. Today, in a doctoral class, he was asked about

> > the difference between cultivated and wild cordyceps. Here is what

> > he had to say about that (paraphrased):

> >

> > " Wild cordyceps is the only herb that can promote repair and growth

> > of epithelial cells in renal tubules. The cultivated cordyceps

> > doesn't have that effect, according to the researcher who discovered

> > that function. The cultivated cordyceps does do the following:

> > regulates immune function, inhibits fibrosis, and has anti-rejection

> > properties in organ transplants "

> >

> > - Bill Schoenbart

> >

>

>

>

 

 

 

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