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What is Ginseng? Why is it so valuable and what is the link between its science and technology?
Ginseng is a popular dicotyledonous herb, valued for its medicinal abilities. There are two species of Ginseng. Panex Ginseng is the Asian species and Panax quinquefolius if the American species. ... Ginseng is a perennial herb. ... The following is a picture of the American Ginseng plant. ... Ginseng’s small pink flowers are found in clusters at the end of stems with small red berries alongside. The most valuable part of the ginseng plant are its roots. ... Another means of finding the age of the root is by counting the number of stem scars on the rhizome, considering that ginseng only produces one stem shoot for each growing season. Establishing the age of the herb and its roots is extremely important. ... The average price of ginseng root if US$62. ...
The ginseng plant is long lived, it has a life span of thirty to three hundred years old. The ginseng is a slow growing plant and growing it takes time and patience. ... It is important that you wait until the plant is sexually mature before you harvest it because otherwise the plant does not produce seeds and you run the risk of extinction of your ginseng population because you have no means to plant more ginseng. As the knowledge of the herbal properties of the plant spread, the demand for ginseng was greatly increased. To compensate for the dwindling supply of wild ginseng, cultivation was introduced to prevent the extinction of the herb. ... As the wild American Ginseng grew scarce, its cultivation eventually started in the 19th century, most of the American ginseng was being specially grown mostly in Wisconsin and Ohio. Now a days it is rare to find wild ginseng on the market, the majority that is on sale are grown in plantations farms. ... Because ginseng is a plant native to the forest, growers strive to make their fields as like to the forest as possible. To cultivate ginseng, growers collect ripe seeds from plants that have begun to grow fruit in around the third year of growing. ... Extreme care and labor goes into the cultivation, harvest and drying of the ginseng root. ... These days although wild ginseng is very rare to come by it is still believed that wild ginseng has a higher medical properties compared to cultivated ginseng.
Approximate Word count = 1911
Approximate Pages = 7.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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