24 BOTANICON sINICUM, 
picul ; next in order stands the first quality Corea. 
= 1,000 Taels, The best cultivated Manchurian Ginse 
200 Taels per picul, 
It is well known 
of Ginseng are the 
come onl 
that the most highly valued specim 
Property of the Chinese Emperor 
¥ occasionally to the market, 
anchurian root is the te 
experiments made repeatedly by Euroa 
physicians with genuine Ginseng proved that it does not 
Possess any importa 
mM ancient times it grew in the moun- 
tains of Shan sj and Chi li. The Shan si drug was considered 
At present it is met with in a wild state only in 
Manchuria and Corea 
- As the wild plant even in these 
Countries jg very rare, 
Manchuria, Corea and Ja 
_ About 50 years ago Dr, P, KrriLiov, then physician to 
the Russian Eccles. Mission 
pan. 
Ger the name of Panar Ginseng. The — 
Manchurian 
N. American a 
Panax Quinquefolium. Both have palmate leaves with five- : 
Sts, minute flowers, 4rranged in an umbellate : 
manner, and red berry-like fruits. The difference between — 
them is principally in the shape, and according to the Chinese 
_ also in the medical Properties, of the roots, 
* In Japan te anax Ginseng occurs only in a cultivated 4 
| state, : < n ‘y % extol, 818 > AB su sjin, vulgo nisji, nindsin, — a 
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