King of a hundred herbs:Ginseng
By admin on 2014-12-29

Ginseng, reputedly the "king of a hundred herbs", has been regarded as the ideal tonic since ancient times. A ginseng looks very much like human body as it is complete with a head and limbs.

Ginseng today is either collected from the wilderness or cultivated.

Wild ginseng is difficult to come by today, and it is too expensive to meet the market demand. That is why the Chinese were already cultivating ginseng some 300 years ago.

The medicinal value of ginseng was not on our ancestors. Sheng Nong’s Herbal Classic, the earlist medicinal book in China, has this to say: ginseng is efficacious for strengthening the heart, stabilizing the nerve system and the mind, stopping shock, improve the level of intelligence, and extend the life span. In his Compendium of Materia Medica, the celebrated Ming-dynasty herbalist Li shizhen pointed out that ginseng is highly effective in replenishing the human body’s vitality, making the old look young, and saving life from the brink of death. All in all, ginseng is an ideal tonic.