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Walter H. Lewis, PhD
Washington University St Louis

JAMA. 1980;243(1):31.

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To the Editor.—

In a recent letter in THE JOURNAL (242:616, 1979) wild and cultivated ginseng growing in the United States is called Panax ginseng (Schinseng). This should be corrected to read P quinquefolium L, because P ginseng C. A. Meyer is found only in northeastern Asia, where the species is now nearly extirpated in the wild although widely cultivated in Heilungkiang, Kirkin, and Liaoning provinces of the People's Republic of China and in North and South Korea. On the other hand, P quinquefolium is native to eastern North America and is cultivated largely within its natural range, although nowhere does it occur as a weed, as stated in the letter.

About 45,200 kg of dried, cultivated root of P quinquefolium and about the same amount of wild root are shipped abroad from the United States annually. The root goes largely to Hong Kong, where it is auctioned (fine North . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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