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Author : James McGraw
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780820368801
Author : W. Scott Persons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Gardening
ISBN : WISC:89101566800
Ginseng, known as 'sang in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, is a native plant from Maine to Georgia and from the East Coast to the Pacific Northwest. Ginseng grows wild in several parts of the world and has been used as a medicinal plant in the Orient for ages. It remains a valued crop around the globe. Persons uses a step-by-step process to show how and where the plant grows. He then shows how these conditions can be duplicated in a controlled manner even in areas of the world where ginseng is not indigenous.
Author : Madison Woods
Publisher : Wild Ozark, LLC
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780996198172
A short visual guide to the plants most commonly mistaken for American ginseng. Includes: Virginia creeper, Ohio buckeye, poison ivy, elm, hickory, and wild strawberry.
Author : Kim Derek Pritts
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0811724778
This guide to ginseng cultivation and the history of its use includes instructions on creating a ginseng garden, establishing healthy growing conditions, and finding the plant in the wild.
Author : Kim Derek Pritts
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780811742221
Cultivitation, history, creating a ginseng garden, establishing healthy growing conditions, and finding the plant in the wild.
Author : Kristin Johannsen
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780813171395
American Ginseng has a strange and perilous history. It has one of the longest germination periods of any known species, and only two environments in the world have offered the ideal growing conditions for wild ginseng. The first was the forests of northern China, which disappeared over a millennium ago, and the sole remaining habitat is the Appalachian Mountain region of eastern North America, an area now threatened by logging and mining. Chinese legend says that ginseng is the child of lightning. The two elemental forces of water and fire fight in an eternal struggle, pouring down rain and snow and blasting the earth with lightning. If that lightning happens to strike a spring of water, the water disappears and in its place grows a ginseng plant—the fusion of yin and yang, water and fire, darkness and light, and the life force that moves the universe. American ginseng has become perhaps the most treasured of all herbal medicines, promising good health and longevity to those who consume it. Fortunes have been made and lost on the plant, which was America’s first export to China—before our nation even existed. The strange, twisted, man-shaped root today commands as much as two thousand dollars a pound in the hot, noisy ginseng markets of Hong Kong, and a wealthy collector might pay as much as $10,000 for a single, perfect specimen. Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America’s Most Valuable Plant unfolds ginseng’s past and its future through the stories of seven people whose lives have become inextricably bound to it: a huckster, a field researcher, a farmer, a ginseng “missionary,” a criminal investigator, a broker, and a cancer researcher. Each of these individuals brings a different perspective to the elusive root—and each is consumed by a different dream. Kristin Johannsen threads her way though remote woodlands in the Appalachians to observe the fragile plants slowly putting out leaves as part of a three-year growing cycle, during which time the ginseng is vulnerable to both poachers and growing suburban sprawl. She contrasts this with the huge commercial growing fields of Marathon County, Wisconsin, where among potato fields and paper mills, ninety percent of the country’s ginseng is produced. Johannsen explores the brisk black market trade in the panacean root and the efforts to save the wild species and its native habitat, and she ends her story in the laboratory, where researchers are investigating ginseng’s anti-cancer properties. An absorbing journey into the many worlds of this mysterious and potent plant, Ginseng Dreams tells the extraordinary story of America’s little-known natural treasure and the spell it casts on those who seek it.
Author : Walter Hepworth Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Ginseng
ISBN : OCLC:4559845
Author : Susan Gail Moths Carpenter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : American ginseng
ISBN : WISC:89015235203
Author : Luke Manget
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813183831
The harvesting of wild American ginseng (panax quinquefolium), the gnarled, aromatic herb known for its therapeutic and healing properties, is deeply established in North America and has played an especially vital role in the southern and central Appalachian Mountains. Traded through a trans-Pacific network that connected the region to East Asian markets, ginseng was but one of several medicinal Appalachian plants that entered international webs of exchange. As the production of patent medicines and botanical pharmaceutical products escalated in the mid- to late-nineteenth century, southern Appalachia emerged as the United States' most prolific supplier of many species of medicinal plants. The region achieved this distinction because of its biodiversity and the persistence of certain common rights that guaranteed widespread access to the forested mountainsides, regardless of who owned the land. Following the Civil War, root digging and herb gathering became one of the most important ways landless families and small farmers earned income from the forest commons. This boom influenced class relations, gender roles, forest use, and outside perceptions of Appalachia, and began a widespread renegotiation of common rights that eventually curtailed access to ginseng and other plants. Based on extensive research into the business records of mountain entrepreneurs, country stores, and pharmaceutical companies, Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia is the first book to unearth the unique relationship between the Appalachian region and the global trade in medicinal plants. Historian Luke Manget expands our understanding of the gathering commons by exploring how and why Appalachia became the nation's premier purveyor of botanical drugs in the late-nineteenth century and how the trade influenced the way residents of the region interacted with each other and the forests around them.
Author : Walter H. Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Ginseng
ISBN : MINN:31951D01913662P
Author : James A. Duke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Ginseng
ISBN : UFL:31262087183645
Author : Jeanine Davis,W. Scott Persons
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781550925630
The most comprehensive, truly practical guide to the cultivation of woodland botanicals Not all saleable crops are dependent on access to greenhouses or sun-drenched, arable land. Shade-loving medicinal herbs can be successfully cultivated in a forest garden for personal use or as small-scale cash crops. Growing and Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal and other Woodland Medicinals is a complete guide to these increasingly popular botanicals, aimed at aspiring and experienced growers alike. In this fully revised and updated edition, authors Jeanine Davis and W. Scott Persons show how more than a dozen sought-after native species can generate a greater profit on a rugged, otherwise idle woodlot than just about any other legal crop on an equal area of cleared land. With little capital investment but plenty of sweat equity, patience, and common sense, small landowners can preserve and enhance their treed space while simultaneously earning supplemental income. Learn how to establish, grow, harvest, and market: Popular medicinal roots such as ginseng, goldenseal, and black cohosh; Other commonly used botanicals including bloodroot, false unicorn, and mayapple The nutritious wild food, ramps, and the valuable ornamental galax. Packed with budget information, extensive references, and personal stories of successful growers, this invaluable resource will excite and inspire everyone from the home gardener to the full-time farmer. Jeanine Davis is an associate professor and extension specialist with North Carolina State University. Her focus is helping farmers diversify into new crops and organic agriculture. W. Scott Persons is the author of American Ginseng: Green Gold and an expert in growing and marketing wild-simulated and woods-cultivated ginseng.
Author : David A. Taylor
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781565127449
The story behind ginseng is as remarkable as the root itself. Prized for its legendary curative powers, ginseng launched the rise to power of China's last great dynasty; inspired battles between France and England; and sparked a boom in Minnesota comparable to the California Gold Rush. It has made and broken the fortunes of many and has inspired a subculture in rural America unrivaled by any herb in the plant kingdom. Today ginseng is at the very center of alternative medicine, believed to improve stamina, relieve stress, stimulate the immune system, enhance mental clarity, and restore well-being. It is now being studied by medical researchers for the treatment of cancer, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease. In Ginseng, the Divine Root, David Taylor tracks the path of this fascinating plant—from the forests east of the Mississippi to the bustling streets of Hong Kong and the remote corners of China. He becomes immersed in a world full of wheelers, dealers, diggers, and stealers, all with a common goal: to hunt down the elusive "Root of Life." Weaving together his intriguing adventures with ginseng's rich history, Taylor uncovers a story of international crime, ancient tradition, botany, herbal medicine, and the vagaries of human nature.
Author : David A. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015063258076
Taylor takes readers from forests east of the Mississippi to the bustling streets of Hong Kong and deep into remote corners of China as he weaves together the history, culture, and intrigue surrounding the "Root of Life."
Author : Bruce Murray Smallfield,John Murray Follett,Sue Zydenbos,New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ginseng
ISBN : CORNELL:31924097726255