Korean ginseng, a medicinal herb, naturally exists in only three regions: “Korea”(33.7-43.1), “Manchuria”(43-47), and the Littoral province of Siberia.
The Korean peninsula is the best place to grow ginseng, because ginseng has stringent requirements for the plant’s growth, and Korea has the ideal temperature zone, plenty of rain in the summer, proper coldness in the winter, etc..
The value of Korean ginseng has been known in the world since the 4th century B.C. Books written in this era documented ginseng as emergent medicine and tonic for long-life. Ginseng was first mentioned as a tonic as early as 48-33 B.C. in Interpretation of Creatures written by You Shi of ancient China.
Moreover, Shen Nung Pen-Ts’ao-ching, the worlds oldest extant Chinese medicinal book, described the quality and production area of ginseng, medicinal effects of ginseng, and showed that high quality ginseng mainly came from the Korean kingdom of Kokuryo.
Russian botanist C.A. Meyer named it panax ginseng in 1843. The genus name, panax means cure all in Greed(pan meaning all, Axos meaning heal), therefore, true ginseng means Korean ginseng.
The Korean peninsula is the best place to grow ginseng, because ginseng has stringent requirements for the plant’s growth, and Korea has the ideal temperature zone, plenty of rain in the summer, proper coldness in the winter, etc..
The value of Korean ginseng has been known in the world since the 4th century B.C. Books written in this era documented ginseng as emergent medicine and tonic for long-life. Ginseng was first mentioned as a tonic as early as 48-33 B.C. in Interpretation of Creatures written by You Shi of ancient China.
Moreover, Shen Nung Pen-Ts’ao-ching, the worlds oldest extant Chinese medicinal book, described the quality and production area of ginseng, medicinal effects of ginseng, and showed that high quality ginseng mainly came from the Korean kingdom of Kokuryo.
Russian botanist C.A. Meyer named it panax ginseng in 1843. The genus name, panax means cure all in Greed(pan meaning all, Axos meaning heal), therefore, true ginseng means Korean ginseng.
