Is domestic American ginseng good?

In the health care product market, domestically produced American ginseng and imported ginseng are of the same quality but at different prices. Most businesses dare not confidently promote and sell domestically produced American ginseng; some consumers also believe that only American ginseng produced in North America is " "Authentic" and "authentic", so do not buy American ginseng that is not "imported"; some businessmen also add fuel to the fire, advocating imported American ginseng and belittling domestic ginseng. Professor Li Xianggao, a well-known ginseng expert from the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Jilin Agricultural University, believes that it is a major misunderstanding to distinguish whether American ginseng is "authentic" and "authentic" based on its place of origin. Just as the "authentic" ginseng is the endangered wild ginseng, the truly "authentic" American ginseng is wild American ginseng, which is native to the primitive jungles along the Great Lakes in North America. Since the early 17th century, due to long-term predatory mining, wild American ginseng resources have been declining, and it has now become a protected and endangered plant. Today, American ginseng is cultivated artificially in the United States and Canada, from mountains to plains, from woodlands to farmland. Therefore, truly "authentic" American ginseng is rarely seen in the market. The American ginseng currently on the market, whether imported or domestic, is artificially grown, and there is no essential difference. To evaluate the quality of American ginseng, one should consider whether its main medicinal and health-care ingredients have changed and whether the content reaches the standard. In fact, the quality of domestically produced Western ginseng and imported ginseng is the same or even better, but the price is much lower. Chinese people can safely use domestic products and do not have to blindly worship or superstitiously import American ginseng. It is understood that after more than 20 years of efforts by scientific researchers, the intrinsic quality of American ginseng introduced from North America in China is basically the same as that of imported ginseng, while the price is lower than that of imported ginseng. In addition, because the cultivation area of ??American ginseng in my country is wider than the place of origin, and some production areas have large temperature differences, the American ginseng produced accumulates more effective substances, and its main component content exceeds that of imported American ginseng. It is also understood that in the domestic market and some pharmaceutical factories and hospitals, many American ginseng sold under the banner of "imported" is "transformed" from domestic American ginseng. In order to cater to the foreign worship mentality of some consumers, and some in order to make more money, some dealers have adopted many methods to "turn" domestic American ginseng into imported ginseng. Some are shipped to Hong Kong and then sold back and become "imported" ginseng; some simply obtain an import certificate from the customs and change their "identity" in China; some joint ventures and cooperative American ginseng production or processing companies turn the ginseng produced in China into American ginseng is labeled as "imported" ginseng, with the American Stars and Stripes and Canadian maple leaves printed on the packaging, and then sold to consumers who are superstitious about foreign products at a high price. There is a joke going around that there is a person in Shanghai who likes to eat American ginseng but not Chinese American ginseng. We lied to him and passed Chinese American ginseng off as American American ginseng. He took it for two years and thought it was good. Later he switched to American ginseng, which he thought was American ginseng produced in China. This joke deserves our reflection.