NPS rangers recovered nearly 700 wild ginseng roots poached from Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Experts warn understaffed public lands face an ongoing threat.

In total, the suspects were found to possess nearly 700 pounds of poached ginseng. See the charges poachers could face and more.

Wild ginseng, known as a 'natural elixir,' is extremely rare and difficult to encounter in practice. However, the recent ...

A federal judge earlier this month sentenced a North Carolina man to six months in jail. The crime? Illegally possessing more than 500 ginseng roots he harvested in the Great Smoky Mountains National ...

Hundreds of ginseng roots were recovered after being illegally harvested from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, officials ...

Researchers cloned the roots of a 150-year-old wild mountain ginseng in industrial bioreactors, confirming 100 percent ...

Book cover of Ginseng Roots: A Memoir (2025), written and illustrated by Craig Thompson (all images courtesy Pantheon Graphic Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House) That Midwestern soil is, ...

Ginseng, the precious herbal root, has been used in Asian traditional medicine for centuries. In present day, it’s ubiquitous in beauty products created by brands across the globe. You’re likely to ...

Ginseng has been used in my family for generations, but I still had many questions about the botanical. Where did it come from? Is it rooted in any African American traditions? For many African ...

A new mouse study shows that Panax ginseng relieves fatigue by reactivating the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway to suppress excessive ...