While living in San Francisco, California, he witnessed two Korean Ginseng merchants fighting in the streets over sales turf.
Ginseng, also known as "insam", an alternative name borrowed from the Korean language
Ginseng |
Angelica sinensis, the "dong quai" or female ginseng, a herb species indigenous to China
Adaptogenic effect of some herbs may hold certain merit on account of the ability of the substances to increase the bodies own response to oxidative stress, such as gynostemma pentaphyllum or poor-man's ginseng, which has been shown to increase the body's innate response by increased production of superoxide dismutase (SOD).
The most popular dish on the Sambok is the Samgyetang (Hangul: 삼계탕) which is make of a whole young chicken and Insam (Hangul: 인삼, Korean ginseng).
Considers anti-inflammatory properties of dried roots from the species Angelica sinensis (Dong Quai), Acanthopanax senticosus (now known as Eleutherococcus senticosus, or Siberian Ginseng), and Scutellaria baicalensis (Baikal Skullcap).