– Picture Below shows the ginseng that is not acceptable: it was cut and not properly dried. The inside has rotted and turned a yellowish color with a sour, alcohol-like odor.
Don’t let the ginseng go rotted before drying, it will smell like a dead fish even after drying! Not acceptable for purchase.
Please also observe all the above process instructions
Picture Below can’t be acceptable either: they’d been kept inside in the airtight plastic bag for too long. Mold has grown, and the inside turns yellowish color, with a rotten smell.
The picture below: The good one: This is an example of ginseng root with 100% active ingredient. Look the color of its inside spongiform is milky-white like.
The correct way in the drying process will increase its value. On the contrary, the wrong way will decrease its quality, and thus the value. Every year, by the poor digging and drying process alone will result in a loss of more than 5%.
Then move them to a ventilated and shaded area for further drying. This is to avoid the damaging of the inner spongiform and protect active ingredients.
A : Lay the wild ginseng roots flat on top of the cardboard box or wood plate, place it in a ventilated and shaded area. Space them from each other, no stack. Dry them naturally itself.
B : Below picture on the left: Nail the elder aged ginseng on top of a Styrofoam board, properly spacing between them. Place the board in a ventilated shady place.
C : Below picture in the center: Clamp the necks of ginseng roots, then hang them in a ventilated shade place so as to avoid the neck turns curved and the purchase price can be increased.
Below picture on the right: With the right way of digging, storage, cleaning, and drying, the inner color looks milky white. It fully preserved the active medical ingredient. Therefore, it brings higher quality and better pricing. (The picture is just for showing the inner sponge form of the nice ginseng.)
2. With some foam packaging material at the bottom of the bigger one, put a smaller box in. Fill it with more Styrofoam materials, and seal the larger one. Label the box with a “FRAGILE” sticker.
1. Put a layer of green moss at the bottom of the shipping box, with the green facing up. Put the unwashed ginseng in the shipping box on top of the green moss. And put another principal site layer of green moss, with the green facing down on top of the ginseng. There should be 2 holes of 1-2 millimeters on the top of the box in order that the hot air inside can goes out and will not suffocate ginseng cells. But if the holes are too big, ginseng will lose the moisture then gradually goes bad. If you are shipping them with a 35°F cooler, no holes needed.
Immediately after cleaning, put them under directed sunshine for a short period of time (30-40 minutes) This is to quickly remove the surface moisture
We pay 10-30% above market average price for those wild ginsengs with the necks more than 2-4 inches (i.e. 20-40 years old).
Below are pictures of the desired ginseng look: The plant with leaves, stem, neck, and lateral roots that all intact.
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