Reason for removing entry about ginseng   I removed the following entry  Ginseng first used by Native Americans is discovered by a Jesuit missionary in Canada  for the following reasons   In  JosephFranois Lafitau the Jesuit missionary only read about Chinese ginseng  His hunt for American ginseng a very similar plant only succeeded in   He was not the first to send ginseng to France His contribution was that he said that the Chinese and American varieties of ginseng were the same and that American ginseng was used for therapeutic purposes by Native Americans he was also the first to conclude that American ginseng could be used instead of the Chinese variety  For references see frJoseph Franois Lafitau