"Do you know where my hometown is?" Xiao Xiong asked him with a smile,

"I don't know!"

"Nanyang, Henan," Xiao Xiong smiled when he saw Dong Zhu's puzzled expression. He understood the pillar, and he didn't go outside the mountain much, so naturally he didn't know.

"Wormwood, also known as Bingtai, is mostly produced on the sunny side of the mountain, and the plant fully absorbs the essence of the sun, so it is a pure yang plant. The wormwood in our hometown is called Wan Ai, and there is also a kind of Qi Ai, which is a product of Qi Chun, Hubei. Our native wild wormwood in Nanyang. Mugwort leaves are as big as a palm, so they are also called slap mugwort or palm mugwort. Xiao Xiong proudly,

"The Nanyang area is rich in water and soil, and when it comes to the Dragon Boat Festival, you can go and see it, the wormwood grows lush and green, more than one person is tall, and entering it is like entering a bush. Hey, I really want to think about that time, my grandmother often used mugwort leaves to make a nest for me to eat, which was fragrant and sweet and had a special taste! ”

He had a happy look on his face, probably remembering the time.

"It's just, it's a pity, we don't have many wild resources there, and now most of them have been changed to artificial breeding, if they can see that there are so many wild wormwoods in the mountains, it is estimated that they will not be envious to death?"

"Then how did you come to make moxa?" Dong Zhu was still a little puzzled,

"In the Nanyang area, many families process moxa sticks by themselves, I grew up with my grandmother, and I watched her process this, and I also helped her do it when she was fine, which was used to supplement the family, so I was exposed to it, of course!"

"Oh, what about mine, it's amazing, it seems that you have suffered a lot in your time?"

"Hehe, it's good to suffer, so you see how good I am now, I can't be idle at any time, and I know so many Chinese herbs, and I still rely on my life experience!" Xiao Xiong sighed.

"Grandma has always used wormwood to cure us, and if there is a disease, smoke it, or soak some wormwood leaves, and it will be fine immediately. When it came to the Dragon Boat Festival, she also made all kinds of sachets for us to hang on our bodies or at the head of the bed. Even dried the wormwood and put it in our pillows. The purpose is to repel mosquitoes and protect our health! ”

"Awesome, you've got a good grandma!" Dong Zhu's tone of envy.

"Hehe, that's right, the old man lived for more than 100 years before he drove west, and I have to thank my ancestors for the tradition of using wormwood to heal diseases!"

"Will your ancestor use wormwood to cure diseases?"

"Of course, wormwood has a long history of healing in our country. The so-called five thousand years, the history of wormwood, is also part of the history of our Chinese civilization. Isn't there the word Qi Ai on the heirloom of your Dong family to drive off the epidemic? "The starter. m..

"I really don't know this,"

"When your uncle went to us to ask for help, he took that bronze skewer, and I didn't have that eye blessing in the first place. Didn't you donate it to the Desert Museum later? Director Zeng is a good friend of mine, so I got the opportunity to take a look! Xiao Xiong explained,

"When you get out of this mountain, I'll take you to see it!"

"Hehe, thank you, there must be a lot of treasures in the museum, right?"

"Yes, many, many, most of them were excavated by us in the desert tombs!"

"You're so good, how do you know everything?"

"Hey, a lot of them come from books, and some are better than books, haven't you heard of people? It is better to read 10,000 books than to travel 10,000 miles, and when you get out of this mountain, you will know how wonderful the outside world is! ”

"Thank you, but we are poor in this mountainous area, if it weren't for the volunteer teachers, the children would have lost the opportunity to go to school!"

"Learning is a must, what era is it, how can you do it if you can't read? Nine years of compulsory education this is basic, if possible, it is better to talk to your uncle yes, out of the mountains, to go to university,"

"Yes, we walked out of this ravine where he is such a college student, and he still went to the University of Chinese Medicine!"

"That's right, after returning to the village, you ask your uncle, is this wormwood, is it recorded in the Book of Songs, is Mencius over, "Seven years of illness, ask for three years of wormwood"? ”

"Hehe, this is good, it's okay on the road anyway, you can tell me about the history of wormwood! I'll blow it to him when I get back! ”

"You, this is not a bragging, but of course I would like you to know more!" Because Xiao Xiong already had an idea in his heart, he naturally did not refuse to come, and immediately talked again.

"You know, many medical books in ancient times have records of wormwood, and famous doctors of all generations have used wormwood to cure diseases, such as Bian Que during the Warring States Period, he used mugwort to treat all diseases. Zhang Zhongjing of the Han Dynasty used wormwood in more than 20 prescriptions. There is also Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty, in the compendium of materia medica, the most described single product drug is wormwood, with a total of 64 prescriptions. You can go back and ask your uncle in the evening, but I wonder, your uncle is the director of the Chinese medicine department, why didn't he have the idea to develop this product in his hometown? ”

"Maybe he doesn't know this remedy, right?"

"Just kidding, my grandmother knows it, but he doesn't know if he is a Chinese medicine doctor? If you can't get it, what you have at your door is really stinky artemisia, not mugwort? ”

"Hi, Uncle Xiao, no matter what is at the door, it is the same here, and the distance is not much, let me ask you, is the processing of moxa sticks complicated?" It seems that Dong Zhu is a little moved.

"It's not complicated at all, it can even be very simple, because the production process has hardly changed for thousands of years," Xiao Xiong saw that the villagers also came over, and listened attentively, and immediately came to the energy, and explained hard, quite a bit of sales.

"There are a total of 8 links in the production process of moxa, that is, wormwood harvesting, leaf stem separation, natural drying, natural aging, crushing and screening, manual rolling, and quality inspection.

"It's not easy, is it? But it sounds like it's quick to get started! The villagers were a little confused.

"So, you just have to remember the three most important parts, aging, crushing and rolling, do you understand?"

"Understand, it's much simpler, but Uncle Xiao, is there any scraps for wormwood processing? For example, if you remove moxa, what should you do with the rest of the things? Will it pollute the environment? Dong Zhu thought a lot, because he had heard that projects involving environmental pollution could not be launched.

"It doesn't pollute the environment at all, because after wormwood is processed, there is almost nothing left. The very small part left after the processing of moxa wool is called moxa powder, which can be used as feed or veterinary drug additives, or can be made into foot soaking tablets, foot soaking powder, foot patches, moxa pillars or after it is pressed and carbonized, it is directly made into moxibustion sticks, so that there is nothing to waste! ”

"This thing! The raw materials are sufficient, the process is simple, the pillar, let's do this! The fellows got excited...... read3;