The ginseng tree grown in Danh mountain, Bac Giang, blooms quickly. When dried, it can be used to make tea. Drinking it will refresh you.

The white, pure white ginseng flowers bloom in abundance in the gardens and hills at the foot of Danh mountain.

Clusters of ginseng flowers bloom in gardens, gardens, and hills at the foot of Danh mountain in Lien Chung and Viet Lap communes, Tan Yen district, Bac Giang province. Photo: Huong Hien

When it comes to ginseng, everyone thinks of the high nutritional value of long-standing ginseng roots, but few people know that ginseng flowers are also a precious gift for the user's health.

In particular, Danh mountain ginseng flower is a product harvested directly from many years old Danh mountain ginseng tree, used by people as a herbal tea with many benefits for human health thanks to organic acids, amino acids, minerals. Especially in Danh mountain ginseng flower, there is the active ingredient saponin which is very beneficial to living organisms.

Danh mountain ginseng flower is a product harvested directly from many years old Danh mountain ginseng plants. Photo: Danh Lam.

From early morning, in the gardens and hills at the foot of Danh mountain, ginseng farmers have been chatting and busily harvesting ginseng buds from Danh mountain.

The ginseng buds, still covered with dew, are only picked early in the morning to achieve the highest quality and are no longer harvested when the sun is high in the sky.

After being harvested, the flower buds are carefully selected and processed through a process of roasting with just enough heat to keep the ginseng flower buds intact and retain the essence of the land and sky of Danh mountain.

From early morning, ginseng farmers have harvested ginseng buds from Danh mountain in Tan Yen district, Bac Giang province. Photo: Vuong Lam.

According to folk legend, during the reign of King Tu Duc of the Nguyen Dynasty, thanks to the ginseng of Danh mountain, the king's mother's eyes were cured, and from then on "Danh mountain ginseng" became a famous royal specialty in the North.

The plump ginseng buds will be harvested for processing. Photo: Danh Lam

Every year, mountain ginseng flowers and produces seeds around late August to October. Fresh ginseng flowers are dried to make tea.

In addition, ginseng flowers can be eaten raw or cooked into very nutritious dishes. Each hectare of ginseng 2 years old or older will produce 3-4 tons of fresh flowers with a selling price of 50 million VND/ton, earning 150-200 million VND/year. Dried flowers to make tea cost about 800,000 VND - 1 million VND/kg.

Fresh ginseng flowers are dried to make tea. Tea made from Dan mountain ginseng flowers has a sweet, aromatic, cool flavor, which is the characteristic flavor of ginseng. Photo: Huong Hien

Fresh ginseng flowers are dried to make tea. Tea made from Dan mountain ginseng flowers has a sweet, aromatic, cool flavor, which is the characteristic flavor of ginseng. Photo: Huong Hien

Mr. Than Hai Dang - Director of the Cooperative (Cooperative) producing and consuming Danh mountain ginseng Viet Lap shared: In 2020, he and 11 members of Viet Lap commune took the lead in establishing the Cooperative to bring the activities of planting, producing and consuming products from Danh mountain ginseng to a large and systematic scale.

Currently, the Cooperative has more than 10 hectares of ginseng, producing 4 main products: Dried Nui Danh ginseng; Ginseng wine; Ginseng soaked in honey; Dried ginseng buds.

Southern ginseng growers have a whole season of flowers, the Cooperative alone estimates that they can harvest about 1.6 - 1.8 tons of dried ginseng flowers to make tea, with the current selling price of about 800,000 VND - 1,000,000 VND / kg, earning about 1.4 - 1.5 billion VND / crop. Characteristics of Southern mountain ginseng: For the most flower exploitation in years 2 and 3.

Many households have changed their lives and become rich by investing in growing Nam Nui Danh ginseng. A typical example is the family of Mr. Nguyen Tien Manh, a member of the cooperative, growing 1.4 hectares of Nam Nui Danh ginseng.

Every two days, Mr. Manh's family harvests ginseng buds, about 2.0 - 2.5 quintals of fresh ginseng flowers. After processing and drying, they can produce 30 - 35 kilograms of dried flowers to make tea. This ginseng flower crop, his family estimates to harvest about 7 quintals of dried ginseng flower tea, worth over 600 million VND.

In recent years, farmers growing Danh mountain ginseng in the two communes of Viet Lap and Lien Chung, thanks to their dedication in applying scientific and technical measures and investing in the revival of Danh mountain ginseng, have developed it into a precious medicinal herb area, bringing in income and economic development from the sale of ginseng flowers, ginseng roots and ginseng seedlings, earning tens of billions of dong each year.

Source: https://danviet.vn/cay-sam-nam-trong-o-nui-danh-bac-giang-ra-hoa-can-cha-kip-say-kho-lam-tra-uong-tinh-ca-nguoi-20240928001327233.htm