Across Appalachia, September marks the start of ginseng season, when thousands of people roam the hills searching for hard-to-reach patches of this highly prized plant. Many people know ginseng as an ...

Wild ginseng was first mentioned in the ancient Oriental book of medicine "Shang Han Lun," written by Zhang Zhongjing during the later Han period in around A.D. 200. Since then, the various effects of ...

South Korea's wild ginseng hunters head to the mountains for the medicinal root. Sept. 20, 2007 — -- A 40-minute drive outside of Sam-Chok, South Korea, Choi Moo Yeol is searching for hidden ...

HAMYANG ― Many of us are familiar with ginger but not so much with ginseng. Ginger is even familiar to children in the West because of the gingerbread man character. In Korea, ginger is used a lot in ...

The clamor for wild ginseng can make people do wild and crazy things. The History Channel’s “Appalachian Outlaws” has chronicled daring, illegal ginseng poaching schemes on public and private land – ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ) - Ginseng has a long history in the U.S. “There’s records of Daniel Boone harvesting and shipping it out, basically wagon loads and boat loads of ginseng to Asia,” explained Keith ...

Ginseng is a prized root in demand for it's wide use in traditional Chinese medicine. Some of the most valuable ginseng grows wild in Appalachia, but supplies are dwindling. The root ginseng is used ...

A federal judge earlier this month sentenced a North Carolina man to six months in jail. The crime? Illegally possessing more than 500 ginseng roots he harvested in the Great Smoky Mountains National ...

Digging for wild ginseng pays: It sells for thousands of dollars in overseas markets. But it is illegal to take ginseng from national parks, where authorities are working to thwart poachers. They come ...