The GINSIX Journal

Why Six-Year Ginseng Is Different

Not all ginseng is grown the same way. Not all ginseng is harvested at the same time. Those two facts explain most of the gap between what is sold in the mass market and what Korean practitioners a...

From Clinic to Pouch

Most wellness products begin with a trend. An ingredient becomes popular, a lab produces an extract, a brand builds a story around it. This one began in a clinic, about four decades before there w...

The Morning Ritual

Most things added to a morning eventually fall away. The ones that stay are the ones that fit without friction. Why a morning tonic at all In Korean clinical tradition, herbal preparations are us...

How to Read a Ginseng Label

The ginseng market is large, competitive, and almost undifferentiated at the label level. Two products can look nearly identical on a shelf and contain very different material. Here is how to tell ...

What Is Hanbang?

The word hanbang turns up more and more often in wellness writing. Most of what carries the label in a Western commercial context has been separated from the system that gives the word meaning. Her...

What Are Ginsenosides?

If you have seen ginseng on a label and wondered what separates one from another, the answer starts with ginsenosides. What they are Ginsenosides are naturally occurring steroidal saponins found ...

Introducing GINSIX Morning Ritual

GINSIX is a Korean herbal tonic. Six-year ginseng grown on Ganghwa Island, ginger, kudzu, licorice, tangerine peel and malt, in an 80mL pouch you drink in the morning. That is the whole product. Th...