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King of the Herbs

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Wild Jinsang - The Healing Power of the Chinese

Wild jin sang used to be all over china but its healing properties were so highly prized, people dug it out wherever they found it. Records of it date back to ancient china, where soldiers would eat it before battle and then put it on wounds after the fight. One doctor is quoted as saying, a person would rather take a handful of jinsang than a cartload of gold and jewels. Around a thousand years ago, asan jin sang became so hard to find in china, it effectively went extinct.

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