Does thousand-year-old ginseng really exist?

Ginseng is a perennial herb, which likes cool and humid climate. it grows in coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forests or mixed trees on mountain gentle slopes or sloping slopes with small temperature difference between day and night. It is named because of its hypertrophic roots, shaped like spindles, often bifurcated, and the whole picture is quite like a human head, hands, feet and limbs. Many people often hear the words of the thousand-year-old ginseng. Let's take a look at whether the thousand-year-old ginseng really exists.

Does thousand-year-old ginseng exist?

The thousand-year-old ginseng is the ginseng that has grown for thousands of years, which is extremely rare and has high medicinal value. It is reported that a wild mountain ginseng weighing 75.8g was unveiled at the Renshen Festival in Tonghan Spring Hall of the Old City God Temple on November 20, 2004. it has been identified that this ginseng has traveled through a thousand years in the field of Changbai Mountain in Jilin Province. when ginseng farmers unearthed it weighed more than 300g, it was the heaviest ginseng so far, setting a new record price of ginseng with a "sky-high price" of 2.22 million yuan.

How long is the life of ginseng?

Ginseng is one of the oldest relict plants on earth. It thrives widely in Tertiary, where angiosperms flourish, and its life span is usually about several decades in the natural environment, but the regeneration ability of wild ginseng is very strong. Under suitable conditions, it can grow for hundreds or even thousands of years, so the title of "King of Grass" is well deserved. But the millennium ginseng is like an endangered animal, it is very rare and rare, but once it appears, it is basically a sky-high price.

Growth environment of ginseng

Ginseng is distributed in eastern Liaoning, eastern half of Jilin and eastern Heilongjiang. It generally grows in places where the annual accumulated temperature is 2000-3000 ℃, frost-free period 125-150 days, snow cover 20-44 cm, annual precipitation 500-1000 mm. It likes cool and humid climate, likes oblique and diffuse light, and avoids strong light and high temperature. The soil is required to be brown forest soil with good drainage, loose, fertile, deep humus layer or mountain ash brown forest soil, and the pH value of soil is 5.5-6.2.

What kinds of ginseng do you have?

1. Raw ginseng: the surface of raw ginseng is yellowish, with black-brown horizontal lines and vertical wrinkles, crisp, light, flat cross-section, white, radial fissures, fragrance, bitter taste.

2. White dried ginseng: the epidermis of the main root of white ginseng has been removed, the body surface is yellowish or white-like, the horizontal pattern at the upper end is not obvious, but shallow longitudinal wrinkles and branch root marks can be seen, and other characters are similar to those of dried ginseng.

3. Red ginseng: red ginseng has a brown-red surface, translucent, yellow rhizome, hard and brittle, flat cross-section, horny, brownish red, light round center, fragrance and slightly bitter taste.

4. Wild ginseng: the main root of wild ginseng is short rent, equal to or shorter than the rhizome, with two main branches, similar to the human body. The fibrous root is sparse and long, not easy to break, and has obvious verrucous protuberances on it.

5, garden ginseng: garden ginseng rhizome on one or both sides of the Reed bowl, no orchard, the top of the main root has a thick horizontal pattern, not helical, sometimes all can see horizontal grain, whisker root such as broom-like, short and brittle.