"Drunk" red spicy knotweed, the whole body is a treasure
In the rural slopes, the wasteland often sees a kind of plant, the red pole blooms safflower, and the southwest Hunan region is called "Yueli grass", which is mainly used to make koji. In the seventies and eighties, the people of Longhui Hengbanqiao in southwest Hunan used "Yueli grass" to make koji, which became the economic pillar of the time and made the first pot of gold.
Listen to the legend of the older generation, in the past, people in southwest Hunan wanted to go to Yunnan, Guichuan to make a living or do business, spicy knotweed (Yueli grass) is a standing thing around them, and they have to carry the burden to walk the mountain road for a long distance, it is inevitable that there will be ankle sprains, or they are not accustomed to the water and soil when they first arrive in a different place, and spicy knotweed can play a miraculous effect of treating bruises, sprains and diarrhea.
This plant is called spicy knotweed, it grows in the north and south of our country, so it has many aliases, spicy knotweed is also known as water knotweed, willow leaf knotweed, water pepper, cotton hair sorrel leaf knotweed, willow leaf knotweed.
It is an annual herbaceous plant, its stem is erect, but it grows many branches from the base, on the surface of its leaves it will produce many small purplish-red spots, the leaves are alternate, lanceolate, dark green, panicles apical or axillary, the flowers are small, greenish-white or pink, dense;The ovary of flowers is oval, achenes oval, flattened, early summer. Fruiting period in autumn.
There are many uses for spicy knotweed, and here are a few of them:
1. It can be used to cover the ripe pestle Autumn is the season to eat the pestle, but the pestle has a characteristic, that is, when it is not cooked, it is particularly astringent. Experienced rural people will pluck some stems and leaves of spicy knotweed, and then put the pestle in the middle of the stem and leaf of spicy knotweed, wrap it, so that after a few days, the pistle will become delicious and sweeter.
2. It is a good Chinese medicine. It has a strong spleen;Dehumidification;Live Blood;Interception of malaria. The main sores are swollen and painful;Summer damp diarrhea;Enteritis dysentery;Pediatric chancre accumulation;Bruises and pains;Malaria.
3. It can be used to get drunk fish. Friends who like to engage in wild meat in the countryside should have used it, in the past, there were a lot of wild fish in the countryside, but it was difficult to get them. They would pull out some spicy weeds, smash them with stones, and throw them into some ditches, and after a while, the fish in the ditches would be drunk. The fish inside can be tied up and ready to be caught.
4. It can be used as a wine koji. In our local area, in autumn and winter, we pull this spicy knotweed back and use it to make koji. Because in our hometown, after the Double Ninth Festival, every family has the custom of steaming glutinous rice wine, and we all know that steamed glutinous rice wine must use koji, which is processed from this spicy knotweed.
5. Repelling mosquitoes, this spicy knotweed is also a very good soil pesticide, and the older generation in rural areas have used it. After the spicy knotweed is dried and ground into powder, it is sprinkled on top of this vegetable, and when the dew is not dry, it can prevent the yellow-striped jumping beetle on the vegetable, which is quite good.
Although knotweed grows in waterside wetlands, its appearance is not good, and it is difficult to attract attention, but it is very related to literature. The earliest collection of poems, the Book of Songs, contains ".The decay of the grass stops, and the millet grows and stopsHere it appears directly in knotweed.
In the classical masterpiece "Water Margin", there is "Think of the reed leaf beachhead, the knotweed flower garden, the bright moon sky is bluePoetry. And there is also in "Dream of Red Mansions".The knotweed flower rhombus leaves are not worried, and the frost is pressed on the stalk again".and other famous sentences. It can be seen that knotweed has always been loved by literati.
How many literati have a soft spot for it: "The flower spikes dance in the air in the wind, and a few red knotweeds are drunk in autumn." That's it.
Note: Part** comes from the Internet, and the infringement is deleted. This article does not constitute any medication advice, due to individual physical differences, please follow the doctor's advice. ）
Editor's note: At the foot of the majestic Snow Peak, on the banks of the Xiyang River, the mountains are green and moist, and this vast land is suitable for the wanton growth of various plants and a wide variety of species. It was also the holy place of medicine collection for Sun Simiao, the king of medicine. Thanks to nature's gift to this land, this *** will successively launch the "Walking in the Grass and Trees" column, let us taste the taste of the countryside and the love of the grass and trees in the "Walking in the Grass and Trees". Friends who are interested in grass and trees can add WeChat 13537024097 to discuss and contribute.
*: Drunken Meilong returns to the west.