Ginseng – Americans cash in on ancient Chinese cure-all It’s said to pep you up, calm you down and cure everything from indigestion to infertility. It’s ginseng, a small plant that’s big business.Last year the American farm-grown variety of the aromatic root brought nearly $50 million into Wisconsin, where it is a leading cash crop.Ginseng’s mystique dates back at least 5,000 years. Chinese Emperor Shen-ung praised its healing powers in a book on herbal medicine.

Spa taps into B.C.’s gold mine of ginseng root The terry slippers and the soothing sound of water rolling down the marble-walled entranceway of Sunmore Ginseng Spa are meant as a respite for the tour-bus crowd on their long trek from Vancouver to Canada’s famed Banff and Lake Louise.So is the Chinese tea house in this odd oasis of calm on the industrial-park outskirts of this British Columbia ranching community.And the tour buses have been coming – packed with about 85,000 tourists a year, most of them Asians

TAGGING OF GINSENG AIMS TO DISCOURAGE WOULD-BE POACHERS HIGHLANDS – In an attempt to stymie poachers, the U.S. Forest Service is using dye and microchips to tag wild ginseng in areas where it is illegal to collect the plant.Federal and state officials, worried that the medicinal plant may be harvested out of existence, have in recent years stepped up their efforts against ginseng thieves.This is the first time the U.S. Forest Service has used a marking program, which has proved successful in nabbing poachers along the Blue Ridge Parkway..

GINSENG PRICES SOAR, PROMPTING FEARS PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Ginseng? KA-CHING!The wild root revered in Southeast Asia is fetching up to $500 a pound this year for the best grades, more than twice last year’s wholesale price.”It’s higher this year than it’s ever been,” said Tim Brown, manager of Wilcox Natural Products in Pikeville.That has some worried about the future of Panax quinquefolium, the five-fingered plant Appalachians call “green… Purchase Complete Article, of 600 words 55. Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) – November 30, 1995 GINSENG PRICES SOAR, PROMPTING FEARS PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Ginseng? KA-CHING!The wild root revered in Southeast Asia is fetching up to $500 a pound this year for the best grades, more than twice last year’s wholesale price.”It’s higher this year than it’s ever been,” said Tim Brown, manager of Wilcox Natural Products in Pikeville.That has some worried about the future of Panax quinquefolium

Ginseng finds market in Far East China looks to Georgia for new supply of herb SUCHES, Ga. – Doyle Helton has as unlikely a garden and crop as any gardener in Georgia. He farms ginseng.On the slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains and under the white pines and poplars that tower over 100 feet high, the 62-year-old mountain man cultivates the perennial native herb.From here, the highest community in the state at 3,741 feet, Helton will take his ginseng to Hiawassee, the first leg on a long trip to China.For centuries Oriental countries, especially China, have.

GINSENG DIGGERS ROOT FOR HIGHER PRICES A large yellow wooden sign marks Ferguson’s Store, just outside Natural Bridge.”We buy raw furs, hides, ginseng, scrap metal,” it reads.Inside, dried ginseng hangs from nails in the concrete-block walls, and ginseng ginger ale is kept cold inside a cooler.

Ginseng tea can boost your energy, ginseng gum can boost your libido. Ginseng can even sharpen the mind, or so the claim goes.Since herbal supplements have gone mainstream in the past decade, ginseng consistently has been one of the most popular, with reported sales of more than $62-million a year.But a new study suggests that may be money down the drain.Researchers in Oregon and Michigan examined the mood-boosting..

There’s a new cash crop in Clark County that one official says could become important to the economy of Southwest Washington.The crop is ginseng, a slow-growing root used as an ingredient in consumer products ranging from gum to iced tea, as well as the mystical potion in nutritional supplements popular in Asia.Quality ginseng root commands a high market price, making it a potential good source of income for small landowners, says Charles Brun, horticulturist for…