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Ginseng dreams the secret world of America's most valuable plant

For thousands of years, cultures around the world have relied on herbal medicine for healing. Only recently have Americans flocked to once-suspect botanical treatments for the promise of good health and longevity. Among the most treasured of these plants is American ginseng, revered by millions of Asians as a virtual panacea that sustains every system of the human body. In Ginseng Dreams, Kristin Johannsen chronicles the remarkable world of the mysterious plant that commands as much as two thousand dollars a pound. She unfolds ginseng's history and its future through the stories of seven peop.

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  • "For thousands of years, cultures around the world have relied on herbal medicine for healing. Only recently have Americans flocked to once-suspect botanical treatments for the promise of good health and longevity. Among the most treasured of these plants is American ginseng, revered by millions of Asians as a virtual panacea that sustains every system of the human body. In Ginseng Dreams, Kristin Johannsen chronicles the remarkable world of the mysterious plant that commands as much as two thousand dollars a pound. She unfolds ginseng's history and its future through the stories of seven peop."@en
  • "This book 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 them provides a different perspective on the elusive root - and each is consumed by a different dream." Kristen Johannsen threads her way through remote woodlands in the Appalachians to observe the fragile plants slowly unfolding at various stages of a growing cycle, which takes many years and leaves ginseng vulnerable to both poachers and environmental destruction. She visits the huge commercial fields of Marathon County, Wisconsin, where, amid potato fields and paper mills, 90 percent of the country's cultivated ginseng is produced. Johannsen investigates the booming black-market ginseng trade and the struggle to save the wild root and its native habitat, and she ends her journey in the laboratories of a major medical school, where researchers are uncovering ginseng's anticancer properties."

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