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By PEKAY PETTUS
“NOW., I don’t know if I ought to say it for the paper or not, but they tell me that if a man chews ginseng he can take care of his wife, his mistress and another woman, too!” Rappahannock ginseng hunter * Burnam Atkins looked a bit sheepish. He’d just disclosed that information to fellow ginseng hunter T. R. Baldwin.
Baldwin looked almost embarrassed too, wondering if that was a proper subject for public knowledge. But then he grinned. He wasn’t surprised. “I’ve heard that all my life. My daddy said that it really perks you up.” Burnam Atkins said he’d never known about that special power of genseng until Rappahannock county extension agent Rapley Owings came back from the Korean War.
“Rap was the first one to tell me that,” Atkins said. “He said that in Korea ginseng is so special they wouldn’t let just anybody have it. Just the higherups, the big shots. Rap said he saw it growing under bamboo.”
T.R. Baldwin made it clear that ginseng has other uses, too. “It’s real good for a sore throat. Just chew on a little bit. They grind it up now and make it into pills and teas,” he said.
While Koreans may have once been careful about who had access to the tuberous, fleshy ginseng root, ginseng is now mass marketed. That’s why Rappahannock ginseng hunters now receive $68 for each dried pound of ginseng.
Most Rappahannock ginseng collectors, if they don’t keep the roots for themselves, sell them through
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