I live in Kentucky, and I remember when I was a kid, a guy got shot for poaching ginseng. Poaching used to be a big problem here, and probably still is. Guys would find wild ginseng growing on their property, but the wouldn't necessarily pick it right away, sometimes letting it continue to grow for 10 years so that it would increase in value. That's why people get shot when they try to poach it. Imagine sitting on a nest egg for 10 years just to find it was stolen.
@@Ass_of_Amalek I have no idea. I know we have hills covered in forests, the largest cave system in the US, and mountains. Perhaps that has something to do with it. We have very old railroads here, so it's possible the Chinese workers brought it over when the rails were being built and it turned out to be the right ecosystem for it.
Here in the USA, a friend told me he was gonna plant thousands of ginseng seeds in the woods and go back a few years later to harvest them. I said, "Yeah, that'll work, that stuff grows better in the wild than on farms," and jokingly said not to forget where he planted them. I had no idea that "imitation wild ginseng" was a thing, I guess my friend must have known. Interesting fact about ginseng, those dried roots they sell can be rehydrated and grown years later, I read that but got the opportunity to prove it true when someone went to China, and came back and gave me one of those gift boxes that's got like 4 or 5 dried ginseng roots in it. No idea if it was wild or farmed or what they spent, but I soaked one and it grew a plant! I think that's actually why they started thinking it could cure disease and slow aging, because they were able to revive and grow ginseng from roots that were very old.
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In Korea, ginseng have many classification. There are 2 varieties of ginseng which are San Sam(meaning mountain ginseng which is wild form) and In Sam(meaning human-shaped ginseng which is cultivation form). And there are 3 kinds of SanSam which are perfectly wild, sawing by human growing in wild, and cultivation. Wild form and growing perfectly wild is most expensive.
Yes, we are classified the same except we have a wild simulated class that is man planted, but naturally grown in the mountain forrests. I plant 10 pound of seed every year in natural settings and still have very few big natural plants. It is a difficult plant to work with, and the reason why natural ginseng is so valuable. It is my hobby, provides enough for me and my yobo, and I love being in the forrest. We do have poachers that tresspass and steal it, but in America we have guns.
I find it very peaceful and loving for some reason when I see the old-timers cultivating and harvesting roots and vegetables in general. It's something calming to it
It's a fun hobby I go with my grandfather and he's taught me where to find, how to spot, how to harvest, and how to prepare/store ginseng. I must say it's quite a amazing plant and if anyone has a chance I recommend learning about it.
@@johannese1882 They're expensive because once eaten , you can live up to 1000 years old . Eat two and you get to live up to 2000 years old . Although we have not tested them longer than that , so they might have diminishing returns.
The US use to sell a lot of wild ginseng but the ginseng farm states pressured the states that sold wild to require licenses close to 40 years ago. That stopped the person from hunting it. Selling wild ginseng was not a drop on those states GDP so no one cared. That caused the loss of all the old timers secret growing spots as they were not passed on. Wild hunters that I learned from were vary careful to keep the crop growing.
This is how they control us with these pesky licenses same with marijuana legalization I wouldn’t abide by it and personally take up arms if you feel any law isn’t lawful or totalitarian
I got pregnant after taking ginseng drinks for a month lol. Me and my husband were trying for 6 years, tried everything, vacation, eating healthy, exercise, fertility clinic. None worked. I went to south korea for vacation and brought back home some wild ginseng products, me and my husband were taking them. A month after i got pregnant 😆😊
I remember going to Korea in 1997 when I was still in middle school with my grandfather who was a Korean War veteran. Our tour guide told me that if I go into the mountains and find wild ginseng I could sell it to big company executives and become a millionaire. True story I used to dream of running away to Korea to strike it rich. 🤦🏻♂️
In Korea, there is an anecdote that Chairman Chung Joo-young, who founded Hyundai Group 30 years ago, paid the price of three apartments in Seoul for a wild ginseng and ate it.
My father used to hunt ginseng as a small boy in the mountains of Virginia. His brothers did as well. They sold it to a local general store. But I believe they had to dry it first. That reduced the weight of the ginseng.
I'm not sure, is ginseng equally popular in china? the movie can be made if it's good for the chinese market. but maybe replace george clooney with the rock.
wild ginseng usually sells for 580.00 for a dry pound. it takes 3.5 wet (fresh) pounds of roots to dry to down to 1 pound of dry sellable roots. i have been digging and growing ginseng for about 44 years. a lot of what i saw in the video has a large amount of elasticity in my opinion. it is fun to hunt but is also getting much more difficult to find in the wild. you must plant your seed. a mature plant may product up to 50 or so seeds a year so planting the seed really helps to keep it growing in the wild. it takes 8 to 10 years in the wild to produce a favorable size root. i have plants that i planted the seed for 35 years ago.
So am I wrong or is that reporter in absolute fantasy to suggest that the very small tiny Wild Root that the man held up was worth thousands of dollars by itself which is what the video reported
@@arcatacompany only Korean ginseng (panax ginseng) are of the highest quality and the wild versions of those go for thousands of dollars. Other ginseng are a different species thus are lesser quality ones with a lower price range.
@@arcatacompany in america it takes 100 to125 roots that size to make a dry pound. so with the math done that root as an american plant would be about 1.50 to 2.00 dollars
@@Wandrative it is my understanding that korean gensing is red gensing and is much less desirable for sale than american gensing. that korean gensing is shipped to america and the koreans buy american gensing for the superior quality
@@roysprouls3509 Wow thats the most ignorant comment Ive ever read. There are 20 different types of Korean ginseng, red ginseng is only one of them. Korean ginseng is panax panax ginseng, which has been used in East Asia price more expensive then the weight of gold for thousands of years. The worlds first consumption of ginseng came from Korean ginseng. Even Chinese medical texts write that (Goryeo) Korean ginseng is the highest quality of all ginsengs. Koreans dont even consider other ginseng that isnt from Korea or Manchuria as medicinal. And Chinese+Japanese consider ginseng from the Korean/Manchu region as the best still. The only reason why Americans harvest ginseng in the first place is because Korean ginseng became too expensive and over-harvested through the ages- and there was a cheaper but lesser quality ginseng found in virgin lands elsewhere. A pound of wild Korean Ginseng will cost you 50,000$, not a mere 500$.
Great video, like always! Just a quick note, when you cite a scientific study, you should at least put something like "Smith et al (2015), Journal of Microbiology" and not just "Journal of Microbiology". It makes it much easier to find the paper. 😁
Few places in the world are fit for even farming ginseng, central Wisconsin is one area I know of where ginseng fields with their shades can be seen, exported out of the country for good money. 90% of cultivated ginseng grown in the United States comes from Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Ginseng is all over the place where I live. It's a very bad idea to try & harvest it on someone else's land, though. Unless you have permission, ofcourse.
@@dongshengdi773 either you're a troll or you really have no idea what science is. Most likely because you don't care or you have been told strawmans over and over again. Possibly some other reasons. Do you know what reality is? I can tell that you are way off already and lack the basic education to see why science works the best for describing reality. Do you think your smartphone works with magic? I'd bet you don't even understand the underlying principles, yet alone are you willing to learn them, because you clearly already know everything (sarcasm, just so you know 😏)
in my area ginseng is soaked in alcohol water and believe it or not it tastes really amazing. in our area the drink is called "Arak baceman ginseng" 🇮🇩
Farming ginseng is also extremely difficult due to soil toxicity build-up (yes they are medicinal herbs thuse they ends up with getting killed by its own substance.) and annoying fungi infesting the soil. It is nearly impossible to grow ginseng more than 6 consequtive year, and after one batch of farming, you cannot use that soil ever again. Solution to this, is diging out entire soil of ginseng farmground and autoclaving it, which will destroy all the materials that contaminates soil including disgusting fungus infestion and ginseng's own plant toxicitiy. Most of 'medicinal' plants even including coffee tree produces variety of self-protective substances which is useful for human and plant's own, but after continued farming, they end up with contaminating soil with all those molecules that are now concentrated enough to be toxic for plant, ending up with killing them.
The older the more valuable, wild ginseng may have years of life or more to tens, hundreds. So the grown ginseng is cheaper. And still the planting for ginseng is difficult.
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I'm glad I was raise in the country with family who are farmers Now I live in Florida and I been growing my own fruits herbs veggies now getting chickens and a goat not only cause prices going up but I know where my food is coming from and it's not being process oh any chemicals what I love the most is going to my little farm slash garden and just pick a fruit oh veggies and eat it fresh from my trees people should start looking into growing there own fruits and vegetables and herbs is the best thing you can due
I live in remote places, and come and brought ginseng, just few years ago wild Ginseng used to be everywhere, like we literally kill them to grow rice, but few people who brought them brought it for couple of dollar per kilo, like less than five dollars, those people has scam villager, and we thought we were lucky cuz we didn't know the use of it and the price of it
Only Korean wild ginseng (Panax ginseng) were taken seriously in the medicinal world for thousands of years, thus they are the ones that go up for ridiculous prices. still you could have eaten them yourself what a waste…
@@TheBooban the only thing the video established that the wild type has more of is hype and tradition. there was no kind of numbers of levels of any compounds to suggest that the wild plants have more of it than the farmed stuff. people pay for the idea that there has to be more "stuff" in the wild ginseng.
I started taking Korean ginsing back in the late 70s when I was 15 and even more so when I was 18 and rollerskating and going out wilh many girls. Ginsing is a natural male energy stimulant and back then I would work from 6am to 5pm then get home and drive to the roler skating rink and skate for 4 hours doing dance and artistic partner skating, then take home atleast 1 to 3 girlfriends depending on the day as I had 6 perminant girlfriends that all knew each other and sheared time with me. Ginsing gave me the strength to handel the situations without stress of loss of energy. I would get home most nights around 3am sleep for 2 hours and be ready to go back to work around 5.30am 6 days a week. I did this for many years untill I finally got married but Ginsing allowed me to be able to work 18 hours a day 6+ days a week. Now at 62 ginsing no longer works well as I had far to much of it when I was young. Ginsing is ment for later life, so a man can feel strong with his partner or partners. I wish I did more study on Ginsing when I was younger but am still very impressed with what ginsing helped me physicly do and still am capable of due to this wonderfull herb.
@@g.l7219 then why is korea and china our largest buyers? Maybe it’s because yall rape your land and we dont so we have a steady supply and surplus of ginseng.
The real Ginseng are those that runs away quickly before you harvest it..look it up in youtube...those ginseng that got away are those more valuable and preferred by Immortal being 🥰
The types of ginseng, age of it, and how people harvested them have significant impact on the price. Like getting wood. You get wood selling for thousands and really cheap wood everywhere at the same time. Not all ginseng sells for thousands. You can get those cheap ones everywhere in Korea and China pharmacy, some people even drink them daily but not everyone can, not because of the price but for health concerns, it’s a type of eastern medicine.
In chinese fairy tales, it'll turn into a kid when its age > 1000 years. To capture it, tie a red thread silently so can trace its place the next day. Eat this thousand-year-old ginseng will make you immortal.
because of its efficacy and rarity that makes ginseng so expensive friends, thank you for sharing this valuable knowledge about ginseng, it is very useful
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Our n.y. and northern pa root sells for 1,500 a pound and OVER.....it's ALWAYS been this way. Northern root has always sold for more than double than southern root. The roots in the south don't have the long severe cold like the north.
Rather than spend hundred of thousands on a single root with high concentrations, why not just buy a bunch of cheaper roots with lower concentrations and consume more? I guess money is no object for people purchasing these goods anyway.
While older roots have more ginsenosides, the leaves themselves have nearly the same concentration of ginsenosides but can be harvested every year instead of having to wait 8
Is it possible to extract ginsenosides from younger roots and combine them into one dose rather than relying on the high concentrations found in older roots?
The one gripe I have with this video is in the way they used the lines from the scientific studies. Those are probably papers that groups of scientists have published which paint a much larger picture than the single lines that they showed here. That is not the way those papers should be judged.
I found a very clever way to grow strong and ultrapure ginseng in Europe. They use hydroponic systems without pesticides and pack the ginseng in compostable material from wood chips. The effect is very powerful due to the high concentration of ingredients. To my mind this is the first sustainable ginseng equivalent with former wild ginseng grown in the asian forests for 25 years+. And a safe source for Europeans which appreciate low carbon footprint plus high standards. So there are alternative ways to achieve longevity with ginseng. Finally this product is even cheaper compared to rare wild simulated species. Once you are not on site, you never know about the quality when ordering abroad. I rarely believe certificates on paper.
@@00kidney good luck! Try a "root buyer" if you can find one locally, for the real thing! Be forewarned, it's a bit bitter, but it works rather well, when tinctured.
Some people may have ginseng intolerance. Also, ginseng has side effects. +) I think ginseng is just a luxury version of coffee.. It has stimulating effect, so eating small amount of it can have some benefits, but when you eat too much, you won't sleep well.
I remember as a young man hearing that in Asia, Ginseng is best used by older folks! As a young man I took it for stamina and was often overstimulated. Now at 65, it helps me to maintain my strength and to have enough energy to get through the day!
@@anthonycrystal33 Indeed Geared for mid life and elderly, good for younger people that play sports etc. good for stamina/endurance. Glad to hear you're a consumer, very wise to do !! Ive been consuming since 1979.....also a grower now since the early 80's
@@osimbojoseph2177 Yes i have roots brother but can NOT send internationally. STRICT laws regarding wild ginseng and international shipping C.I.T.E.S. laws here in America. Sorry brother and best wishes to you and yours.
Ginseng did one thing to my body and that is keeping my body temperature up. No other symptoms but I did not like it. Study Korean herb medicine and you can learn more.
Daam here in my place in India , we sold 1 kg of ginseng for less then 6 $. We didn't know what it was use for and people bought alot and people are poor here so we didn't know better
It also depends on how people harvest them. Not all types of ginseng are expensive. Most expensive ones are up in the mountains. And somehow breaking one small thin root will make a huge price drop.
don't people believe that ginseng actually extends life? you could sell anything for outrageous prices if you make enough rich people believe that it will make them live longer.
@@Uniquecouple-2013 In Korea, Korean ginseng is the best. I heard that the US also has old ginseng, but its value is difficult to be recognized in the US. And they are different from each other. Experts can easily tell the difference.
Here in Wisconsin we produce over 90% of this country's output per year. My grandfather used to take me out looking for them just like this old man. It was a lot of fun and he told me if it looks more like a curvy supple woman along with its size and color East Asians will pay more of a premium. I didn't believe this until I went to Chicago's China Town and saw a sign with a root of ginseng that looked like a couch resting woman. I'm shocked by that but man I love ginseng so can't blame them for loving the herb!
Cultivated Winconsin ginseng is definitely more affordable compared to wild ginseng dug up from the Appalachian hills. Just like some folks who drink a glass of red wine at every dinner, I have a cup of ginseng tea every afternoon. Keeps my yin and yang in balance. 🤣🤣🤣
Your all's ginseng is cultivate which is cheaper in price, not like our wild ginseng here in Kentucky... your all's junk is the reason prices are down bc the Chinese can buy your all's crap root for Penny's...
@@nicholascaudill9654 Typical unrefined and uneducated Southerner. We never even had pennies sir but cents. It comes from the Latin word for 100 in the form of the C in Roman Numerals. I will give you some clemency since you define our cheap ginseng which payed for our education but what can I expect from a man whose his own uncle, brother and grandson through his parents union?
I live in Kentucky, and I remember when I was a kid, a guy got shot for poaching ginseng. Poaching used to be a big problem here, and probably still is. Guys would find wild ginseng growing on their property, but the wouldn't necessarily pick it right away, sometimes letting it continue to grow for 10 years so that it would increase in value. That's why people get shot when they try to poach it. Imagine sitting on a nest egg for 10 years just to find it was stolen.
why is there ginseng in kentucky? is it established in the wild after being brought by chinese immigrants? it's not native to america, is it?
@@Ass_of_Amalek I have no idea. I know we have hills covered in forests, the largest cave system in the US, and mountains. Perhaps that has something to do with it. We have very old railroads here, so it's possible the Chinese workers brought it over when the rails were being built and it turned out to be the right ecosystem for it.
There is american ginseng most people don't know of it because if they new its native, how could they pay such high price. IE big business.
@@Ass_of_Amalek ginseng is native to America.
@@Ass_of_Amalek ginseng is not only native to America, the American variety may bring some of the highest prices from Asian buyers
Here in the USA, a friend told me he was gonna plant thousands of ginseng seeds in the woods and go back a few years later to harvest them. I said, "Yeah, that'll work, that stuff grows better in the wild than on farms," and jokingly said not to forget where he planted them. I had no idea that "imitation wild ginseng" was a thing, I guess my friend must have known. Interesting fact about ginseng, those dried roots they sell can be rehydrated and grown years later, I read that but got the opportunity to prove it true when someone went to China, and came back and gave me one of those gift boxes that's got like 4 or 5 dried ginseng roots in it. No idea if it was wild or farmed or what they spent, but I soaked one and it grew a plant! I think that's actually why they started thinking it could cure disease and slow aging, because they were able to revive and grow ginseng from roots that were very old.
Interesting!
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@@thefattesthagrid wat
@@Nirvana_keat wat?
Huh, didn't know that, even as a Korean! Thank you for the knowledge :)
In Korea, ginseng have many classification. There are 2 varieties of ginseng which are San Sam(meaning mountain ginseng which is wild form) and In Sam(meaning human-shaped ginseng which is cultivation form). And there are 3 kinds of SanSam which are perfectly wild, sawing by human growing in wild, and cultivation. Wild form and growing perfectly wild is most expensive.
Yes, we are classified the same except we have a wild simulated class that is man planted, but naturally grown in the mountain forrests. I plant 10 pound of seed every year in natural settings and still have very few big natural plants. It is a difficult plant to work with, and the reason why natural ginseng is so valuable. It is my hobby, provides enough for me and my yobo, and I love being in the forrest. We do have poachers that tresspass and steal it, but in America we have guns.
Chinese called 人参
And in Japan, 人参 means "carrot." 😁🥕
And in Indonesia we call it "Ginseng"
How you could differentiate between wild and cultivated ginseng once they were harvested?
I love the puppers casually playing in background...
I wonder if they are training them to sniff out the root similar to how they use pig's and dogs for truffles?
I find it very peaceful and loving for some reason when I see the old-timers cultivating and harvesting roots and vegetables in general. It's something calming to it
It's a fun hobby I go with my grandfather and he's taught me where to find, how to spot, how to harvest, and how to prepare/store ginseng. I must say it's quite a amazing plant and if anyone has a chance I recommend learning about it.
its literally useless...It has no benefits outside of the shamanic crap that hte japanese farmers peddle to sell it...Much like square watermelons.
@@7bloodi it seems like there has to be further research taken to tell if it's good for health or not.
@@johannese1882 They're expensive because once eaten , you can live up to 1000 years old .
Eat two and you get to live up to 2000 years old .
Although we have not tested them longer than that , so they might have diminishing returns.
Mr Cooper can you tell me how to Sow its Beans nad when to harvest it and in what Season Best for it , and how much time does it takes to Grow ????
Teach us
The US use to sell a lot of wild ginseng but the ginseng farm states pressured the states that sold wild to require licenses close to 40 years ago. That stopped the person from hunting it. Selling wild ginseng was not a drop on those states GDP so no one cared. That caused the loss of all the old timers secret growing spots as they were not passed on. Wild hunters that I learned from were vary careful to keep the crop growing.
This is how they control us with these pesky licenses same with marijuana legalization I wouldn’t abide by it and personally take up arms if you feel any law isn’t lawful or totalitarian
Folks still hunt around here.
@@Dad-lu1oi Great advice...How's the cult treating you.
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@@36terraplane57 they want to ban natural plants and herbs I think that’s over reach from the government
2:05 I love the puppies play fighting while they're waiting :)
Yeap😀..... we love you doggies😘😘😘😘
I got pregnant after taking ginseng drinks for a month lol. Me and my husband were trying for 6 years, tried everything, vacation, eating healthy, exercise, fertility clinic. None worked. I went to south korea for vacation and brought back home some wild ginseng products, me and my husband were taking them. A month after i got pregnant 😆😊
Seems ginseng can increase testosterone. It might have helped your husband.
Congratulations!
We had twins 9 months after a visit to the seafood buffet during the evening, then back to our hotel room that night
I remember going to Korea in 1997 when I was still in middle school with my grandfather who was a Korean War veteran. Our tour guide told me that if I go into the mountains and find wild ginseng I could sell it to big company executives and become a millionaire. True story I used to dream of running away to Korea to strike it rich. 🤦🏻♂️
In Korea, there is an anecdote that Chairman Chung Joo-young, who founded Hyundai Group 30 years ago, paid the price of three apartments in Seoul for a wild ginseng and ate it.
My father used to hunt ginseng as a small boy in the mountains of Virginia. His brothers did as well. They sold it to a local general store. But I believe they had to dry it first. That reduced the weight of the ginseng.
If you don’t mind me asking, what was the general region of VA?
Who’s just watching the cute dogs playing at 2:05 😂😂😂
Hollywood executives:
What about..."Ginseng Heist" featuring George Clooney
I'm not sure, is ginseng equally popular in china? the movie can be made if it's good for the chinese
market. but maybe replace george clooney with the rock.
Ginseng, Truffles and Wild mushrooms are Earth's Gems Creation. 😌👍🏼
Truffles looks amazing.. Cant stop watchin Truffle videos.. They look so delicacy..
Ginseng looks like it has Ginger taste
Dude. Truffles and wild mushrooms are a delicacy but Ginseng is medicinal.
@@merxellus1456 me too. I liked to see both White and Black truffles vids. I even likes to eat Lay's Truffle Potatoes Chips, the flavors are good. ☺️🤤
Ginseng is bullshit tho
@@thanhavictus one is bullshit - another one grows in bullshit 🤷♂️
Here in my village in Nagaland, Northeast India villagers used to sell 1 kg at RS 150 just $2 US dollar and they were happy .
Bruh , ita toh jingsing loa Manu nai nah?
Past tense?
So what does wild mountain ginseng sell for over there for a pound dry that's from the eastern United States
wild ginseng usually sells for 580.00 for a dry pound. it takes 3.5 wet (fresh) pounds of roots to dry to down to 1 pound of dry sellable roots. i have been digging and growing ginseng for about 44 years. a lot of what i saw in the video has a large amount of elasticity in my opinion. it is fun to hunt but is also getting much more difficult to find in the wild. you must plant your seed. a mature plant may product up to 50 or so seeds a year so planting the seed really helps to keep it growing in the wild. it takes 8 to 10 years in the wild to produce a favorable size root. i have plants that i planted the seed for 35 years ago.
So am I wrong or is that reporter in absolute fantasy to suggest that the very small tiny Wild Root that the man held up was worth thousands of dollars by itself which is what the video reported
@@arcatacompany only Korean ginseng (panax ginseng) are of the highest quality and the wild versions of those go for thousands of dollars. Other ginseng are a different species thus are lesser quality ones with a lower price range.
@@arcatacompany in america it takes 100 to125 roots that size to make a dry pound. so with the math done that root as an american plant would be about 1.50 to 2.00 dollars
@@Wandrative it is my understanding that korean gensing is red gensing and is much less desirable for sale than american gensing. that korean gensing is shipped to america and the koreans buy american gensing for the superior quality
@@roysprouls3509 Wow thats the most ignorant comment Ive ever read. There are 20 different types of Korean ginseng, red ginseng is only one of them. Korean ginseng is panax panax ginseng, which has been used in East Asia price more expensive then the weight of gold for thousands of years. The worlds first consumption of ginseng came from Korean ginseng. Even Chinese medical texts write that (Goryeo) Korean ginseng is the highest quality of all ginsengs. Koreans dont even consider other ginseng that isnt from Korea or Manchuria as medicinal. And Chinese+Japanese consider ginseng from the Korean/Manchu region as the best still. The only reason why Americans harvest ginseng in the first place is because Korean ginseng became too expensive and over-harvested through the ages- and there was a cheaper but lesser quality ginseng found in virgin lands elsewhere.
A pound of wild Korean Ginseng will cost you 50,000$, not a mere 500$.
Those dogs are so cute playing in the background!
Great video, like always! Just a quick note, when you cite a scientific study, you should at least put something like "Smith et al (2015), Journal of Microbiology" and not just "Journal of Microbiology". It makes it much easier to find the paper. 😁
Agreed!
what a nerd!
Few places in the world are fit for even farming ginseng, central Wisconsin is one area I know of where ginseng fields with their shades can be seen, exported out of the country for good money. 90% of cultivated ginseng grown in the United States comes from Marathon County, Wisconsin.
A family friend has a huge ginseng farm there
West Virginia and surrounding states have a ton as well.
My husband grew up in Wisconsin and worked in his family’s ginseng field as a kid.
Ginseng is all over the place where I live.
It's a very bad idea to try & harvest it on someone else's land, though.
Unless you have permission, ofcourse.
95% of all cultivated Ginseng in the world comes from Korea.
The dogs too cute, can't take my eyes off them
My takeaway is: more people become Gullible and therefore more ginseng is needed
everyone is gullible enough to believe in Science that has NEVER proven Anything.
Science doesn't even know what Reality is 😂
@@dongshengdi773 found the gullible 😐
@@dongshengdi773 either you're a troll or you really have no idea what science is.
Most likely because you don't care or you have been told strawmans over and over again.
Possibly some other reasons.
Do you know what reality is?
I can tell that you are way off already and lack the basic education to see why science works the best for describing reality.
Do you think your smartphone works with magic? I'd bet you don't even understand the underlying principles, yet alone are you willing to learn them, because you clearly already know everything (sarcasm, just so you know 😏)
@@okije haha yeah... I'm speechless 😂👌
@@dongshengdi773 I'm don't know if this is a joke or not
So we are ignoring how cute those pups are?
8+ years of waiting before harvest, no wonder it's expensive.
in my area ginseng is soaked in alcohol water and believe it or not it tastes really amazing. in our area the drink is called "Arak baceman ginseng" 🇮🇩
I love that scene in Drunken Master when they lose the Ginseng 😂 Jackie Chan is the man.
Jackie chan is a traitor to the people of Hong kong
I planted 5+ lbs. ginseng seeds this year. Hopefully that'll be my retirement!!
Let me be honest.
I am more attracted to the background characters.
Those 2 men-best-friends are so cute.
Farming ginseng is also extremely difficult due to soil toxicity build-up (yes they are medicinal herbs thuse they ends up with getting killed by its own substance.) and annoying fungi infesting the soil. It is nearly impossible to grow ginseng more than 6 consequtive year, and after one batch of farming, you cannot use that soil ever again. Solution to this, is diging out entire soil of ginseng farmground and autoclaving it, which will destroy all the materials that contaminates soil including disgusting fungus infestion and ginseng's own plant toxicitiy.
Most of 'medicinal' plants even including coffee tree produces variety of self-protective substances which is useful for human and plant's own, but after continued farming, they end up with contaminating soil with all those molecules that are now concentrated enough to be toxic for plant, ending up with killing them.
Seems like most of what kills Ginseng can be avoided by growing it in a greenhouse or shipping container farm.
Anyone know why not?
The older the more valuable, wild ginseng may have years of life or more to tens, hundreds. So the grown ginseng is cheaper. And still the planting for ginseng is difficult.
Same reason you can't farm wild truffles.
@@justayoutuber1906 they say right at 0:51 that there is farmed Ginseng.
@@justayoutuber1906 you can farm truffles. They aren’t wild if you farm them lol
@@mrs.chandler9384 "they aren't wild if you farm them" lolllllll
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It's growing wild all over Kentucky and West Virginia me and my dad use to hunt it when he was still here
USED to grow all over........NOT any longer
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Very interesting and love the personal story of the nice man who grows Ginseng! 🥳👍😊🌷
Everyone: Talks about Ginseng
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I'm glad I was raise in the country with family who are farmers
Now I live in Florida and I been growing my own fruits herbs veggies now getting chickens and a goat not only cause prices going up but I know where my food is coming from and it's not being process oh any chemicals what I love the most is going to my little farm slash garden and just pick a fruit oh veggies and eat it fresh from my trees people should start looking into growing there own fruits and vegetables and herbs is the best thing you can due
2:02 LMAO dogs are having a good time
I live in remote places, and come and brought ginseng, just few years ago wild Ginseng used to be everywhere, like we literally kill them to grow rice, but few people who brought them brought it for couple of dollar per kilo, like less than five dollars, those people has scam villager, and we thought we were lucky cuz we didn't know the use of it and the price of it
Now you should sale it in valuable price ,
Does Ginseng grow in Hot Weather or Cold ???
Only Korean wild ginseng (Panax ginseng) were taken seriously in the medicinal world for thousands of years, thus they are the ones that go up for ridiculous prices.
still you could have eaten them yourself what a waste…
Still why? Like is it even worth doing that ,like how does this compare to the farmed one
Human have a knack for traditional method.. Wether its more beneficial or not..
Humans r wierd..
They said in the video! Wild has more of the stuff that makes a ginseng a ginseng. But you could just eat more of the farmed ginseng instead.
Why buy a luxury brand like Gucci when you can easily find a fake one with the same quality
@@TheBooban the only thing the video established that the wild type has more of is hype and tradition. there was no kind of numbers of levels of any compounds to suggest that the wild plants have more of it than the farmed stuff. people pay for the idea that there has to be more "stuff" in the wild ginseng.
0:15 okay but can we please appreciate how cute his dog looks back there, damn you cameraman for not getting him in focus.
all I care about is those cute puppies
My grandfather survived the depression digging ginseng in the west Virginia mountains
Its used for making potions that raises all of your stats permanently by 10
Didn’t know how valuable seng was until I watched Appalachian Outlaws. It’s like a drug war but with a root plant
I started taking Korean ginsing back in the late 70s when I was 15 and even more so when I was 18 and rollerskating and going out wilh many girls. Ginsing is a natural male energy stimulant and back then I would work from 6am to 5pm then get home and drive to the roler skating rink and skate for 4 hours doing dance and artistic partner skating, then take home atleast 1 to 3 girlfriends depending on the day as I had 6 perminant girlfriends that all knew each other and sheared time with me. Ginsing gave me the strength to handel the situations without stress of loss of energy. I would get home most nights around 3am sleep for 2 hours and be ready to go back to work around 5.30am 6 days a week. I did this for many years untill I finally got married but Ginsing allowed me to be able to work 18 hours a day 6+ days a week. Now at 62 ginsing no longer works well as I had far to much of it when I was young.
Ginsing is ment for later life, so a man can feel strong with his partner or partners.
I wish I did more study on Ginsing when I was younger but am still very impressed with what ginsing helped me physicly do and still am capable of due to this wonderfull herb.
Came back from a store that sold $600-2000 ginseng roots. I was baffled and intrigued. I love knowing the benefits of this baby though
Expensive snake oil.
Need a separate video on those 2 smol dogo (small dogs, in the background)
I can say that we’re getting screwed here in ky. 6-800 a lbs is all I have seen it bring in years. I dig 2-4 lbs a year. I need a new buyer
Someone buying it cheap from you, then bringing it to SK and getting it certified and it’s worth 100x more.
Buddy you need to go to everts and see johnsons roots and herbs they pay good
@@g.l7219 then quit buying are shit if it's so bad
@@g.l7219 then why is korea and china our largest buyers? Maybe it’s because yall rape your land and we dont so we have a steady supply and surplus of ginseng.
im in love with those two little white and black in the back playing
The real Ginseng are those that runs away quickly before you harvest it..look it up in youtube...those ginseng that got away are those more valuable and preferred by Immortal being 🥰
seen it a few times in my life .
they still amaze me to This day
What?! Ginseng that runs?! 👁️👄👁️
You dare junior leave all your things then crippled yourself and i will leave your arm intact
It can increase your cultivation into next realm. 🤭
Because someone one time put a price for wild ginseng root and it is so expensive because of it costs alot of money.
The types of ginseng, age of it, and how people harvested them have significant impact on the price. Like getting wood. You get wood selling for thousands and really cheap wood everywhere at the same time. Not all ginseng sells for thousands. You can get those cheap ones everywhere in Korea and China pharmacy, some people even drink them daily but not everyone can, not because of the price but for health concerns, it’s a type of eastern medicine.
I heart ginger and ginseng. It’s good stuff 🙏💕
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We grow ginseng, I can’t wait to start taking them.
Some people say it could have age up to hundred of year but im not sure about that
In chinese fairy tales, it'll turn into a kid when its age > 1000 years. To capture it, tie a red thread silently so can trace its place the next day. Eat this thousand-year-old ginseng will make you immortal.
It’s just story. Like drinking magic potion and you never die in western stories. No one believes it.
because of its efficacy and rarity that makes ginseng so expensive friends, thank you for sharing this valuable knowledge about ginseng, it is very useful
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2:03 the dogs are sooo damnnn cuuute🥺🥺🥺🥰🥰🥰 their fight at the back is just 🥰
I miss picking ginseng and yellow root "goldenseal" in Tennessee.
I have Ginseng supplements daily. Helps me in focus and memory.
I live in west Virginia in the usa and ginseng here sells about 540 dollars for 1 lb .I have pocket lots for ginseng in my day .
Our n.y. and northern pa root sells for 1,500 a pound and OVER.....it's ALWAYS been this way. Northern root has always sold for more than double than southern root. The roots in the south don't have the long severe cold like the north.
Rather than spend hundred of thousands on a single root with high concentrations, why not just buy a bunch of cheaper roots with lower concentrations and consume more? I guess money is no object for people purchasing these goods anyway.
that's why people just eat red ginseng... And it's delicious with honey.
Cause people believe rarer means high quality which is better than eating lots with ‘cheap’ quality.
Very meticulous work. Thank you!
While older roots have more ginsenosides, the leaves themselves have nearly the same concentration of ginsenosides but can be harvested every year instead of having to wait 8
Ginseng leaf tea is really nice , just not easy to find …
Is it possible to extract ginsenosides from younger roots and combine them into one dose rather than relying on the high concentrations found in older roots?
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😆 lol it really is
Good way to make something go extinct: attach an extravagant price tag to it.
Ginseng tea is really good. Try it if you have the chance!
My mom finds that everywhere she searches for it in the woods and she gets a lot of money from them
The one gripe I have with this video is in the way they used the lines from the scientific studies. Those are probably papers that groups of scientists have published which paint a much larger picture than the single lines that they showed here. That is not the way those papers should be judged.
Every time a so expensive video is uploaded I feel poorer
I found a very clever way to grow strong and ultrapure ginseng in Europe. They use hydroponic systems without pesticides and pack the ginseng in compostable material from wood chips. The effect is very powerful due to the high concentration of ingredients. To my mind this is the first sustainable ginseng equivalent with former wild ginseng grown in the asian forests for 25 years+. And a safe source for Europeans which appreciate low carbon footprint plus high standards. So there are alternative ways to achieve longevity with ginseng. Finally this product is even cheaper compared to rare wild simulated species. Once you are not on site, you never know about the quality when ordering abroad. I rarely believe certificates on paper.
This is an amazing insight in the world of Ginseng. I really want to see if I can find real Ginseng now and try it!
Don't get shot. People won't hesitate to shoot a ginseng poacher, and feed them to the coyotes.
@@melhawk8045 lol I mean for sale
@@00kidney good luck! Try a "root buyer" if you can find one locally, for the real thing! Be forewarned, it's a bit bitter, but it works rather well, when tinctured.
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They should've covered the wild seng in the Appalachia in America
Why cover it, didn't you see enough of that on that goofy t.v. show App. outlaws. Goofiest show ever televised, was that ever weak
Some people may have ginseng intolerance.
Also, ginseng has side effects.
+) I think ginseng is just a luxury version of coffee.. It has stimulating effect, so eating small amount of it can have some benefits, but when you eat too much, you won't sleep well.
Some people can’t have them. They do cause nose bleed.
I remember as a young man hearing that in Asia, Ginseng is best used by older folks! As a young man I took it for stamina and was often overstimulated. Now at 65, it helps me to maintain my strength and to have enough energy to get through the day!
@@anthonycrystal33 Indeed Geared for mid life and elderly, good for younger people that play sports etc. good for stamina/endurance. Glad to hear you're a consumer, very wise to do !! Ive been consuming since 1979.....also a grower now since the early 80's
@@shanghunter7697 can u get me ginseng roots? I'm in Kenya.
@@osimbojoseph2177 Yes i have roots brother but can NOT send internationally. STRICT laws regarding wild ginseng and international shipping C.I.T.E.S. laws here in America. Sorry brother and best wishes to you and yours.
I’ve hunted ginseng for as long as I can remember here in Wisconsin.
Ginseng did one thing to my body and that is keeping my body temperature up. No other symptoms but I did not like it. Study Korean herb medicine and you can learn more.
Sure. And crystals help too....
Never knew about this.. nice to know 👍👍
So basically the best stuff is when humans don't get involved in it's creation.
2:03 The dogs: Don't mind us!
Po'ency is very impor'an'
You heard it too.??
😂😂😂
I hate sloppy pronunciation in narration. Like Man'ha'in
Yes the pups playing around at back are the best 👍😎
If not because of human will ginseng goes extinct?
This guy remember the place where he sow his seeds eight years after and I don't remember the food i ate last night 😂
Yeah Korean ginseng is best
When I give some Gin to my Korean friend, he sings.
Daam here in my place in India , we sold 1 kg of ginseng for less then 6 $. We didn't know what it was use for and people bought alot and people are poor here so we didn't know better
It also depends on how people harvest them. Not all types of ginseng are expensive. Most expensive ones are up in the mountains. And somehow breaking one small thin root will make a huge price drop.
I'm sorry but My focus is distracted to that cute puppy at behind. 😁😁😁
They are so cutee
Those dogs are having the time of their lives they're so cute
Ginseng is a business of superstition. People are willing to pay very high price for their superstition.
don't people believe that ginseng actually extends life? you could sell anything for outrageous prices if you make enough rich people believe that it will make them live longer.
Exactly. At these prices the Chinese drug cartes and counterfeiters will make a supply.
Look at the Vatican.
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That's common in my hometown. But the people of my motherland are unaware about the importance of these plants.
지금 나오는 이 영상은 인공적으로 재배한 인삼으로써 20~200$ 이고 자연적으로 자라서 우연히 발견한 100년 이상 자란 인삼은 최소 200,000$ 이상의 가격입니다.
Hi ,I have seen many wild ginseng in the forest ..I didn’t cultivate till now because I don’t know who buys..do u have any idea?
@@Uniquecouple-2013 In Korea, Korean ginseng is the best. I heard that the US also has old ginseng, but its value is difficult to be recognized in the US. And they are different from each other. Experts can easily tell the difference.
Thank you 🙏
That cute moment of doggo playing 2:03
Here in Wisconsin we produce over 90% of this country's output per year. My grandfather used to take me out looking for them just like this old man. It was a lot of fun and he told me if it looks more like a curvy supple woman along with its size and color East Asians will pay more of a premium. I didn't believe this until I went to Chicago's China Town and saw a sign with a root of ginseng that looked like a couch resting woman. I'm shocked by that but man I love ginseng so can't blame them for loving the herb!
Cultivated Winconsin ginseng is definitely more affordable compared to wild ginseng dug up from the Appalachian hills. Just like some folks who drink a glass of red wine at every dinner, I have a cup of ginseng tea every afternoon. Keeps my yin and yang in balance. 🤣🤣🤣
@@DennistheMenace2011 Smart man !!
Your all's ginseng is cultivate which is cheaper in price, not like our wild ginseng here in Kentucky... your all's junk is the reason prices are down bc the Chinese can buy your all's crap root for Penny's...
@@nicholascaudill9654 Typical unrefined and uneducated Southerner. We never even had pennies sir but cents. It comes from the Latin word for 100 in the form of the C in Roman Numerals.
I will give you some clemency since you define our cheap ginseng which payed for our education but what can I expect from a man whose his own uncle, brother and grandson through his parents union?
10,000 years old ginseng ... Heavenly supreme Cultivation technique
I cure my ginseng and it feels like cocaine.
Nahh cmon
Cuz it increase your cultivation level.
the dog is so cute