Word: ginseng
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paid much attention to Moon's smiling supporters when they were grossing more than $10 million a year peddling candy, flowers and ginseng tea on the sidewalk. But now that the Korean evangelist has sent his faithful into legitimate big business, both ordinary and powerful people are becoming concerned--not only with the validity of the Unification Church as a theological institution and its aims at world theocracy, but also with the legitimacy of its business practices. Indeed, the whole issue raises significant questions about the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of religion...
...pharmacy in Kweilin dispenses a range of panaceas that includes ginseng cigarettes (for smoker's cough) and Male Silkworm Tonic (for impotence). At clinics in Shanghai, Wusih and Foshan, tour-weary Foreign Friends seek massage and acupuncture treatment for whatever ails them. Frances Aldridge of Key Biscayne, Fla., gets needles in her neck to assuage a pinched nerve. She swears it works. Her husband Frank takes acupuncture for an arthritic foot and thereafter climbs mountains without a cane. Their joint bill...
...four inches long, weighs less than an ounce. Diggers send the roots to a handful of dealers, like Willard Magee in Eolia, Mo.; he will mail back a check based on wholesale prices (currently $95 to $110 per lb. for wild and $45 to $50 for cultivated). Though wild ginseng accounts for only 26% of U.S. production, it commands much higher prices than the cultivated variety because it is thought to be more potent. The U.S. cultivated ginseng industry is centered in Marathon County in central Wisconsin, which happens to have the welldrained, acidic soil ideal for growing ginseng. There...
Just about all U.S. ginseng is exported to the Far East, mostly to Hong Kong. Though the ginseng trade is small in numbers of people involved, it has grown lately at a rate that bigger export industries might envy. Because Asian supplies are not enough to meet Asian demand, U.S. ginseng exports have rocketed from $5 million in 1970 to almost $18 million last year...
...trade has flourished, the supply of wild ginseng has decreased-some experts estimate by as much as 20% during the past decade. Rising prices have encouraged even more ginseng digging, and this has further depleted supplies. So the Government is considering putting wild ginseng on a list of endangered species Washington already requires licenses for exports of wild ginseng, and the brand-new, four-member U.S. Endangered Species Scientific Authority banned exports of wild ginseng altogether last month, but exempts states that require a permit to dig wild roots...