Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting phenomena on thread : Flying vs. Hopping

[Vaj]

On Jul 25, 2006, at 2:36 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, but not of the same quality as what I used to get from my herbalist friend. He had *single* ginseng roots that sold for $10,000 -- wild (not cultivated) very rare, and for whom the only real customers were Japanese industrialist billionaires who would fly to L.A., choose one of the roots, and then brew it into a tea and drink it just before going into a multi- million-dollar merger meeting. They believed that  firmly in the value of the tonic herbs. Just to explain to those here who are into herbs, wild gensing is always considered more potent than cultivated, but there are two other considerations that make one root rare enough to be worth 10K. The first is where exactly it grows. There are  mountains and valleys in China, even today, where the beneficial value of the *place* creates more powerful herbs. The herbs (of any kind, not just ginseng) that come from these valleys are at a  premium.  The second is that you can actually tell how long a wild ginseng root has *lasted* on its own in the wild. For every year of its growth, a node grows on the root just about the ground. So an herbalist knows when he finds a root that has had the power to survive for 10 years, or 20. The 10K roots that Ron had were over 40 years old. I wonder how Catskill or New England ginseng compares (it is supposedly "hotter")? __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___