Section: DISSECTING ROOM

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Term Paper Title	Section: DISSECTING ROOM
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Section: DISSECTING ROOM

JABS & JIBES

ON BEING A GINSENG CONNOISSEUR

There is a saying in China: "Those who develop a taste for ginseng will soon be poor." My interest in
ginseng began over a decade ago, as I was walking down Charing Cross Road in London. In the
window of the Korean Ginseng Centre was a large bottle with a superb specimen of the
human-shaped root submerged in liquid, perhaps rice wine. I remember looking at the prices of small
tins of steam-cured red Korean ginseng, and walking on.

Some years later, when Traditional Chinese Medicine shops started to appear in London, I found
myself on a search for liquorice root, with a side interest in the chih fungus of the Immortals. The chih
fungus is reputed to be a purple mushroom that grows in caves in China, but it may be purely
legendary. By ingesting it, Taoists of the Celestial Master Sect are said to be able to visit the
mysterious abode of the Yellow Emperor without the aid of a flying dragon, but that's another story
...

It was raining, I was standing under an umbrella outside a Chinese herbalist's in a drab London street.
I had lingered too long, I could sense my heel about to turn; glancing at the fascinating dried things in
dishes in the window I couldn't see any liquorice. Inside, an elderly Chinese woman was rushing to
the door. When she asked whether I was looking for anything, I was already halfway into the shop (I
think she may have been holding my elbow, as one helps a blind man across the street). "Yes", I said,
forgetting about liquorice, "ginseng, do you have any ginseng root?"

A drawer that seemed to take some time to find was pulled out. I noticed at the back of the shop a
crimson velvet curtain, behind which a partially obscured patient had...

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