Chapter 458 Pulsatilla

What we are talking about is the back mountain of Bayun Village, where it is inaccessible and overgrown with wild grasses, and it is a little panicked to look at it from a distance.

"Ah Luo, didn't you come with Yuan Ru once before? How much do you know about these situations? I asked.

"To be honest, last time we were really loud, there were a lot of people coming, you know, a lot of people have become very chaotic, at that time many departments sent experts, like the water quality here, the soil, all have been extracted many times, but I don't know too much, these situations are always recorded. But I don't think there's anything to be found, and if I did, it wouldn't be so quiet, and there's no news yet. Arrow said.

"So, the last time you came, it was actually useless, you just followed Minister Yuan for a walk?" Dazhe said.

"What is the meaning of wandering, didn't I say, there were many experts in the field at that time, and I was one of them, botanical experts." Arrow said.

"Botany?" Dazhe asked rhetorically.

"What? Is there anyone in the world who knows more about plants than I do? Arrow said.

"Yes, you're amazing, of course you know plants the most, because you're a plant in the first place." Before Dazhe's words fell, he suddenly laughed and lay on the ground and kept begging for mercy, "Ah Luo, I was wrong, don't make trouble, I was wrong." It turned out that Ah Luo had conjured up a lot of vines, which were pestering Dazhe and itching him.

"Arrow, then. What clues did you find? Botany, what's wrong with the vegetation here? I asked.

"It's true that some plants have appeared here that shouldn't be here." Arrow said.

"Is it the night bald head you mentioned earlier? You didn't make it clear at the time, but now you can elaborate on it. I said.

"Pulsatilla is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Anemone, with rhizomes and ovate leaves and a blue-purple calyx. This plant is originally rare here, mainly distributed in Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Heilongjiang and other regions, hills, barren slopes and fields can be seen, not a rare plant. Pulsatilla has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and stopping dysentery, drying dampness and killing insects. It has high medicinal value. It can be planted naturally in the garden. Used to arrange flower beds, on the sides of roads, or to decorate glades, many roads are also decorated with pulsatillas. Arrow said.

"Isn't there such a plant in Guangxi?" I asked.

"It's not nothing, but it's rare. Pulsatilla prefers cool, dry climates. Hardy. Drought. Not resistant to high temperatures. Sandy loam with deep soil and good drainage grows best, followed by alluvial soil and clay loam, while low-lying land with poor drainage is not suitable for planting. After all, Guangxi is still a little humid. So it's probably rare, but on the mountain behind here, there are a lot of pulsatillas, and I think it may have something to do with the white mud soil here. Arrow said.

"So this grass is pretty good." Dazhe said.

"Of course. Pulsatilla has more than 30 varieties, the flower bell-shaped, with white, purple, blue three colors, the whole plant coat of pulsatilla, very peculiar, from the opening of the flower to the capsule ripening in one and a half months, first enjoy the flowers and then watch the fruit. In summer and autumn, the leaves are green, dormant after severe frost, as a wild root plant, can be planted for many years a year to watch, overcome the high cost of one or two annual herbaceous flowers, the shortcomings of varieties are easy to degenerate, the garden can be planted in the forest gap and between the shrubs, or planted in the flower landscape in a natural way, because of its early flowering period, the plant is dwarf, it is an ideal ground cover plant variety, the feathery flower column of the fruit period is preserved, the shape is like a head, extremely chic. It can also be used for flower beds or potted plant appreciation. Not only that, but it is also a test sheet for environmental pollution. Because the pulsatilla is very sensitive to acid rain, when the acid rain comes, the pulsatilla dies quickly, this characteristic of the pulsatilla not only makes it often used as an indicator plant to detect the degree of environmental pollution, but also increases its value as an ornamental flower. ”

"There's so much more to this little flower." Yun Xian said with emotion.

"One flower, one world, one leaf, one Bodhi. Flowers and plants also have feelings, not just learning. "The study also found that pulsatilla can directly act on the surface membrane of the worm's body, which has a strong anti-trichomoniasis effect." It also has the ability to block the release of peroxide in liver tissue, preventing infection with hepatitis B virus. Its aqueous extract has a strong anti-reactive oxidation effect, which can effectively remove hydrogen peroxide and prevent the lipid peroxidation caused by it and cause cell or tissue damage. It also has a significant inhibitory effect on rat colitis. In traditional Chinese medicine, there are special effects for the treatment of heat, poison and blood dysentery, warm malaria, cold and heat, epistaxis, blood hemorrhoids, and pulsatilla. So its medicinal value is also very high. ”

"The name of this flower is quite interesting, Pulsatilla, it sounds like an old man." Yun Ning said.

"The name Pulsatilla does have a origin, and there is indeed a saying that it is related to the old grandfather. Legend has it that once upon a time, there was a Niutou Mountain on the edge of the Great Lake. There is a village at the bottom of the mountain, and there is a young man in the village named Bao. Po has a cheerful temperament, a kind heart, and a helpful heart, and everyone likes him very much. But one day, Ah Bao suddenly had a stomachache, the pain was extraordinary, and the pain made Ah Bao's head break out in cold sweat, and even his hands and feet were cold. At that time, it happened that the people in the neighborhood went up the mountain and went down to the field, and they all went to work, and no one helped. Ah Bao couldn't bear the pain anymore, so he had to hold his stomach and struggle to find Langzhong in the neighboring village to have a look. As soon as he walked out of the village, he couldn't support it anymore and fell on the grass by the side of the road. I don't know how long later, Po suddenly woke up and saw a gray-haired old man standing beside him on crutches. The old man asked Ah Bao why he was lying on the side of the road, and Ah Bao replied weakly: My stomach hurts so much that I can't walk. The old man said, "Then find some medicine to eat." Bao said, "Where can I go to find it?" The old man pointed to the grass next to Ah Bao with a stick, and there was a green grass with fluffy white hair on the top of the grass, and said: The root of this grass is medicine, you dig some back to make soup, and it will be fine if you drink it a few times. Ah Bao thought to himself: This grass is often seen, and the hillsides and wilderness are everywhere, can it really cure diseases? The old man didn't wait for Ah Bao to speak, as if he had already seen through the doubts in Ah Bao's heart. He stroked his beard and said, "I am already an old man with gray hair, will I still lie to you with nonsense?" After saying that, he slowly turned around and left. Po was determined to give it a try, so he couldn't help digging up some of the green grass with white hairs on his head, and when he got home, he boiled the grass roots and drank them, so that his stomach didn't hurt much this night. After drinking it for three days, he was completely cured. When the neighbors came to visit Bao, they knew that Bao's illness was cured by eating a grass root. Po recovered from his illness and went up the mountain to chop firewood again. On this day, Ah Bao met the white-haired old man last time on the mountain road to chop wood, the old man stood there with a crutch and was quite energetic, looking from a distance, the white beard was fluttering, like a fairy in the mountains. Ah Bao hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Thank you, old man, the medicine you let me take is really good, I drank it a few times, and my illness was cured." The white-haired old man smiled and said, "Young man, I was just about to tell you that it is my family's ancestral secret recipe." I see that you are kind-hearted and willing to help the people in the village, and I want to use your mouth to help me pass it on to the world. Po nodded in agreement. The white-haired old man suddenly disappeared again. Since then, no matter who the people in the village are, if they have a stomach ache, Ah Bao will carry a shovel day and night, go to the field to dig the green grass with white fluff on the top, and when he comes back, he will use the grass roots to fry water and give it to the sick to drink. After drinking, the stomach pain was cured. Someone curiously asked Ah Bao what kind of medicine this is, when Ah Bao learned to use herbs to treat diseases, Ah Bao is a kind person, and he told everyone how he had a stomachache, how he met the white-haired grandfather, etc. People asked the old man where he went, and Ah Bao regretted it: yes, why didn't he ask the white-haired old man where he lived? The next day, Ah Bao ran to the place where he met the old man for the second time, wanting to thank the old man again, and then ask for advice in person if there is anything in the future. However, Ah Bao waited day after day, and waited for half a month, but he didn't see the white-haired old man appear again. Bao was disappointed, he sat on the side of the mountain road where he met the old man for the second time, and looked at the many green grasses with hairy heads on the grass, and suddenly, he saw a bright light, coming from a green grass with white hair on the top, and in the bright light, the green grass swayed gently in the wind. Po suddenly discovered: Oh, how much this grass looks like an old grandfather with white hair and white beard! Ah Bao understood in his heart, the white-haired old man was probably the Antarctic Immortal Weng who appeared and came down to teach secret recipes to cure people and relieve pain, right? Ah Bao thought again, we can't let future generations forget the old man who passed on the secret recipe, since this grass doesn't know the name yet, it's better to call it: Pulsatilla. Since then, there has been a pulsatilla herb in the world. "But there is another theory that Du Fu named this grass pulsatilla." Legend has it that when the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu was trapped in Beijing, his life was extremely difficult. One morning, Du Fu drank a bowl of leftover porridge from two days ago, and soon vomited and had severe pain in his abdomen. But he lived in a hut, penniless, and had no money to seek medical advice. At this time, a white-haired old man happened to pass by in front of his house, saw this scene, was very sympathetic to Du Fu, and said after inquiring about his condition: You wait for a while, and wait for the old man to collect medicine to treat you. Not long after, the white-haired old man picked a handful of wild grasses with white pubescence and decocted them for Du Fu to swallow. After Du Fu finished taking it, the pain slowly disappeared and he recovered after a few days. Exactly, no one asks about self-pity for the white head, and the pity is the white head, so Du Fu named this grass the white head to express his gratitude to the white-haired old man. ”

"And what is the night baldhead? Is it also a pulsatilla grass? I asked.

"The night bald head comes from the pulsatilla, but it is really two very different things from the pulsatilla." Arrow said. (To be continued.) )