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Processed Gemstone of Jage
Chuncheon jade is Yangji-Ok(jade) glossy like suet among other white jades.
Chuncheon jade of milk-white, the highest color of all, has great solidity to the extent that it does not have a scar on it or lose brilliance even if it is scratched with metal things or rubbed against the ground. Rod-like hairpin that is shaped as a dragon with a magic pearl in his mouth, seal, chain-shaped necklace cut off from a rough stone without even a joint and crafts on which dragons are heaped in a disorderly way etc. are showing the highest perfection of the jade craft.

Chuncheon jade, as Yangji-Ok(jade) glossy like suet among other white jades, is charming international jewelry lovers with its superior quality, to the extent that it is transformed into Sinkang-Ok(jade) and traded in China, Australia and Southeast Asia.

[Daeil Mining Co., Ltd]
- Designated items : 81 kinds of processed products of rough jade
Domestic patent registration : 21 kinds(1997. 3 ~ 2001. 3)
International patent registration : 22 kinds(10 countries including Japan, USA, China, France etc.)
Chuncheon Appointment of Special Products : 1999-01(1999. 12. 3)
- Homepage : http://www.oksanga.com/


Chuncheon Pine Nuts
Chunchen area has good condition for raising pine nuts with many rivers including Soyang river etc. and high humidity, and the quality of Chuncheon pine nuts is very good as its raw materials, pine nuts are nationally reputed to be good.

Chuncheon pine nuts obtained quality certification from the national agricultural products inspection first in Korea. Besides, as having a flavor of nut and greater nourishment, and are processed sanitarily to be easily eaten, the pine nuts gain a great favor.

[Chuncheon Agricultural Products]
- Designated items : 2 kinds of pine nut products
Quality Certification 11-01-07(1993. 12. 30) : Agricultural Products Quality Management Service
Chuncheon Appointment of Special Products : 2000-01(2000. 9. 15)
- Homepage : http://www.ccjat.com/

Phellinus Linteus
The saying, "even a dying person will survive if he could get a yellow lump(phellinus linteus) on mulberry tree" has been passed down through the mouths of old men from old times. Thus phellinus linteus is excellent in the effects for preventing initial cancer from multiplying and in lowering blood pressure for high blood pressure treatment. Besides, it is very effective in preventing cancer from recurring after cancer surgery, from what they say. Comparing with the fact that cancer patients lose their hair because anti-cancer medicine used in general chemotherapy treatment is very poisonous, little poison is its major merit. It can be also characterized by increased treatment effect when it is jointly used with general anti-cancer chemotherapy, due to improved immune function.

[Namsan Farming Association]
- Designated Items : Phellinus linteus, 4 Kinds of winter insect summer grass and Agaricus
Patent No. 226632 on the method of cultivating phellinus linteus(1999. 7. 8)
Appointment of Chuncheon Special Products : 2000-02(2000. 9. 15)

[Balsan Farm]
- Designated Items : Phellinus linteus, Winter insect summer grass, Agaricus
Patent No. 255999 on the method of cultivating phellinus linteus(2000. 2. 18)
Approval of trademark for Gangwon agricultural and special products : 01-04(1993. 12. 30)
Chuncheon Appointment of Special Products : 2000-03(2000. 9. 15)

Agaricus Mushroom
This mushroom has a white stem and nice smell, with a similar shape with cultivated mushroom. It has somewhat unique pattern and its peculiar taste and smell.

Agaricus(mushroom in Portuguese) is rare mushroom originated in 'Piedate' are in the suburbs of Sao Paulo, the capital of Brazil. It was first published in 1965 as the research team centering on Dr. WJ Sinden of Pennsylvania State University and Dr. ED Lambert of Lambert Laboratory presented that Agaricus is very effective in the prevention and treatment of cancer or geriatric diseases.

Thereafter, due to more than 30 years of research in Japan and artificial cultivation from the year 1992, many patients in Japan are currently applying to treatment and obtaining the desired results, and it is commercially used to prevent various kinds of illnesses.

Anti-inflammatory agents in Agaricus activates the effects of phagocyte that is possessed by a person with cancer cells and has immune cells actively functionate.
Agaricus is effective in decreasing cancer cells and prolonging life while reviving immune function of human being including taking up the substances that activates the interferon system etc. The mushroom that begins to be acknowledged by the international concern for the last several years is a kind of immune therapy that increases self immune system function and has them fight against cancer cells, contrary to traditional treatment methods.
This once became a topic of conversation, as they said that the former president Tom Reagan in the United States used it for the treatment of cancer of the rectum.


Dongchunghacho (Winter Insect Summer Grass)
The name, Dongchunghacho(winter insect summer grass) comes from the meaning that an insect remaining dormant throughout winter becomes mushroom(grass) in summer. It is a medicinal mushroom parasited in insect larvae that is characterized by C. sinensis that goes into the body through respiratory/digestive organ or joint etc. of an insect and grows and multiplies while taking nutritive substance and when host insect dies, the infected insect maintains its shape not spoiled until mushroom comes out, and is in Ascomycetes, Clavicipitales and Clavicipitaceae.

Records about Dongchunghacho are clearly stated in Dongeubogam(guide of Korean oriental medicine) and Chinese medical book, Bonchogangmok(botanical list). Originally, Dongchunghacho refers to Cordyceps sinensis comes from larva of Endclyta excrescens however, it becomes the general term for mushrooms. It is called as Dongchunghacho in Korea and Japan, and as 'Dongchunghacho' 'Hachodongchung' 'Chungcho' 'Dongchungdho' etc. in China.

Thus, there is Dongchunghacho growing only in the alpine region, but on the other hand, C. nutans can be found in the hill not far from the town. It is very hard to find out Dongchunghacho that is growing in the neighboring area, and that is because of fastidious condition of its habitation, as well as of its very small size. That is, Dongchunghacho likes humus soil properly shaded by broad-leaved forest with a little forest floor, which is surrounding the valley with clear air and high humidity. Dongchunghacho is normally found out on the ground surrounding the valley. However, Dongchunghacho having imagoes of beetle or moth as its hosts can be found inside the branches of tree and that lives upon spider, ant or dragonfly etc. can be collected in the branches or leaves etc.

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