A story of a reunion, half of which should be a trip to pharmacy and plant records. The greatest pharmaceutical college of mankind is in Shan Ye!
For example, the fruit of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis beside the mountain stream was listed in the first batch of dual-purpose resources catalogue issued by the Ministry of Health. It has been used as medicine since ancient times. Traditional Chinese medicine has been proved to have the functions of protecting liver and gallbladder, lowering blood pressure, calming, stopping bleeding and reducing swelling.
According to historical records, Gardenia was the most widely used yellow dye before Qin and Han Dynasties.
"Han Guan Yi" said: "Gardenia is produced in a dyeing garden and used to dye royal clothes." It shows that in the Han Dynasty, gardenia was used by the court to dye the most advanced royal costumes. Gardenia fruit juice can directly dye the fabric bright yellow, and the process is simple. The dyed cloth unearthed in the Wangdui of Hanma is yellowish in color and is dyed with gardenia.
According to modern physical and chemical analysis, gardenia fruit contains ketone genistein and crocin, among which crocin is used to dye yellow.
Lao Xia was so relieved that she followed her grandmother to the mountains to buy "Litsea cubeba", "Rosa laevigata" and gardenia. On the one hand, she can go to the drugstore to exchange some money, or leave some for cooking, making wine or making tea at home. Decades later, I recalled my feelings with land, nature and plants, and maybe the enlightenment was at that time!
I just came back now. Grandma has been dead for more than ten years, lying alone on the high mountain beam in the east of the village. ...
Nowadays, gardenia bears fruit every year. ...
(2) Patchouli, the "big leaf mint" in cool summer!
After breakfast, Bo Er asked if you were hot. Pull out some big leaf mint to make tea!
Following Bo Er's direction, I really saw several clumps of "big-leaf mint" planted in the cracks in the stone in front of his steps. Oh, my God, sure enough, this is what I have been looking for in Xinjiang. The scientific name is actually not mint, but agastache. There are many wild and cultivated plants in Yili, Xinjiang. Hotan and Kashi in Xinjiang have always been plants for brewing flower sauce in Uygur era.
However, whatever I have seen, whether wild or cultivated, is different from the "big leaf mint" I smelled since I was a child!
In terms of fragrance alone, this hometown of Pogostemon Fragrans is more like mint, which is completely different from the Pogostemon Fragrans seen in Xinjiang, regardless of its coolness or mint fragrance. The latter is too medicinal and has a strong smell of wormwood. This is Asian mint with Scottish mint, and a little taste of Schizonepeta and thyme. Making tea is sweet!
But I have no doubt that the botanical name in front of me is patchouli, not mint, which is strange. No wonder everyone has called it mint since childhood.
On the second day of Phoenix, Lao Xia felt abdominal distension all night, which may be the cause of air conditioning and cold-heat imbalance. In the morning, I bought an alcohol version of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water. After drinking it, I was agitated and soon felt relaxed. The agastache in my knowledge reserve is this kind of agastache.
However, the fragrance of the hometown version of Pogostemon cablin seen today is completely different, and it is a typical "mint flavor" mixed with thyme and new Sophora japonica!
Two varieties of thyme and two varieties of new Tahua discovered in Shan Ye, Xinjiang decades later are the corresponding memories of wild "Schizonepeta tenuifolia (southern thyme)" and "Pogostemon cablin (Pogostemon cablin)". Yes, two plants in Shan Ye, Yili, have been used in medicated diet, medicated tea and several skin care products for external use. Many members all over the country like it, and there have been many cases to improve colds, heatstroke and pharyngitis.
Bo Er looked at me, lost in thought, and said, If you like it, you can take some home next time when its seeds are ripe!
This is really a delightful thing. I know that the older generation used it to make tea in summer to relieve the heat and stimulate their appetite (more like Pogostemon cablin). The key point is that it only has a cool fragrance, and there is no medicinal taste and greasy feeling. Blindly developing tea meals and herbal tea is really a good thing!
(3) this kind of verbena ...
This kind of verbena grows next to the millstone in front of the old house in Hunan, and also on the edge of the vegetable garden in Yili, Xinjiang, by the Ili River.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) uses all herbs as medicine, which is cool in nature and light in taste, and has the effects of cooling blood, removing blood stasis, dredging channels and collaterals, clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving itching and expelling worms, and relieving flatulence.
Careful people should remember that L 'Occitane has an important essential oil shower gel, focusing on verbena.
(4) The best medicinal and floral year Peng!
This kind of small wild chrysanthemum, Lao Xia walked over and couldn't help but look at it a few more times.
I even fantasized that it should be loved by everyone, but unfortunately it became a weed from the beginning!
As a flower arrangement, it is more tasteful, elegant and Zen than other sisters of Compositae.
Making relief and specimen paintings is particularly tangible, with small flowers and few leaves, which is the easiest to express artistic conception. ...
How about doing medicine?
You can take medicine. It tastes sweet, bitter and cold.
Because of its heat-clearing and detoxification, it is often used for gingivitis, so it is called "tooth swelling" and "root swelling".
It is often used for dyspepsia and gastroenteritis, because it can enter the stomach, promote digestion and stop diarrhea.
At the same time, it can intercept malaria. So far, people only remember artemisinin in Tu Youyou. In fact, a bitter fleabane herb is a good herb for traditional clinical treatment of malaria, so it has another name called "antimalarial herb";
People still have experience in treating snake bites with it. It is similar to Inula of Compositae, and the two are often mixed and compatible. In addition, because its shape is similar to Inula, it is also called Inula.
According to records, it also has a good effect on treating lymphadenitis. I personally experienced this twice when I was a child in Lao Xia. Once, the inguinal lymph nodes were swollen like a small egg, and I had a high fever all over. The lymph nodes in the inner thigh were red and swollen once, and I saw them twice. I clearly remember that there are Folium Isatidis and Herba Erigerontis in the external medicine, which are directly mashed and wrapped in cotton cloth with rice washing water, and the medicine is changed every two hours. ...
I have studied the origin of its name "Yinianpeng", because it is completed within one year from a seed to germination, to flowering and fruiting, so it has the name of Yinianpeng.
From Hunan to Yili, Xinjiang, it is found on many semi-arid roadsides, as common as all the weeds around, but its function is not ordinary!
? (5) Fox tail
In the morning, the grass grows in front of the steps of washing your face in the old summer. The crystal clear dew is like a sparkling diamond. I know, it wants me to pay attention to it. ...
All right! Let's find out. Stems and leaves of the Gramineae plant, POTAMOGETON crispus. ) Mu Ye, which has another name, is Bambusa tenuifolia and Saxifraga, which are similar to bamboo in herbs-another herb most similar to bamboo leaves is Bambusa gracilis. Generally, plants that look like bamboo and bamboo leaves can't tell the reason, and Lao Xia is sincerely happy.
White grass is a drugstore, and it is really a medicine. Bitter taste, flat nature, non-toxic, lung meridian.
It has the effects of relieving cough and asthma, detoxifying and killing insects. Commonly used for chronic cough and asthma, hepatitis, pharyngolaryngitis, stomatitis, rhinitis, lymphadenitis, mastitis and scabies.
This is very useful for boiling water, because the elderly have asthma and it is difficult to get up. I still have itchy feet and skin in summer. You can take a bath with boiling water or soak your feet.
—— Institute of Natural Life of Laoxia Handicraft Industry Society 20 18.8. 13