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Title:How to Make them Goodies
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Created:Tue Feb 18 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4127
Total number of notes:31160

1485.0. "Ginseng" by NBC::NICHOLS () Tue Nov 01 1988 13:02

    a friend gave me some ginseng root - what do I do with it?
    How do you make ginseng tea?
    
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1485.1COMET::WILLIAMSJWed Nov 02 1988 19:072
    Go to your nearest health food store they will have all that
    information. GNC (general nutrition center) is my favorite.
1485.2ginseng-teaTHOTH::JIMMYATue Nov 08 1988 11:0515
    Here's how my mom does it.(old fashion Korean way).
    
    Put the Ginseng root in the tea-pot and fill it with water.
    Let it boil in medium heat for about 20-30 minutes and you got
    original Ginseng-tea. You don't have to cut it or wash it before
    making tea. After enjoying cup of tea, you can re-use the root 
    again to make more tea, but it will lose some of it's potency.
    After that you can simply chew and eat the roots.
    
    We Korean folks add honey instead of sugar with tea.
    We know it's an excellent treatment for stress, and it's a definite
    life enhancer.
    
    yong-ki
    
1485.3a technologist encounters traditionLYMPH::RYDERTue Nov 08 1988 19:023
>>    Put the Ginseng root in the tea-pot and fill it with water.
    
    What ratio of root to water?
1485.4good stuff.MLFS1::ROBARGEWed Nov 09 1988 15:0416
    Put one or two roots in the medium sized tea-pot. Depending on the
    taste of the individual, first time will be experiemental.
    
    Generally, the Korean roots come in maroon or reddish colored, square
    box, and sizes are almost equal to each other. It should have Korean
    Govt. stamp on it since they run it, they export high quality one's
    only, believe it or not. They are 5-6 years  old roots only. 
    
    They also have in package forms. So all you do is take one and just
    add hot water and honey or sugar.  I got a gift from my mother-inlaw
    from old country a ginseng-root in liquid form in small traditional
    Korean pottery like glass, and it is very good. But I have'nt seen
   in that form here. (friend of mine owns Oriental store sells  ginseng-
    root in several different forms_)                   
    
    yong-ki