Qianhai | Basil is vanilla

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The "Compendium of Materia Medica" has a record: Basil, now known as the silk grass, with its son to rule the silk also. "Jia Bencao": "Adjust the middle to consume food, remove evil qi, eliminate water vapor, and eat raw food." He also healed rotten sores from the root of the teeth, and used it very well for ash. And the wind, the athlete's foot, the disease, take the juice to serve semi-fixed, and cook it with a dry person in the winter month. "Drinking and Eating" Yun: "Eat with all the dishes, the spicy taste can dispel the fishy atmosphere." ”

Basil, Cantonese people called jin does not change, edible, can also be used medicinally. The plant is small and delicate, with a strong aroma throughout. Legend has it that more than four hundred years ago, basil was brought into Taiwan by the Dutch, and people could not name it, but with its strange fragrance and cascading flowers like pagodas, it was called a nine-story pagoda. Nine, virtual fingers, many meanings. Six small flowers huddled together, about twenty floors. Basil is named "Tower", which is quite religious, no wonder in ancient Greece and Rome, basil was worshipped as the "king of vanilla", and India also respected basil as the sacred grass for purifying the soul.

Recognize basil vanilla in Dongguan. By the wall of the compound, I planted a bunch of small dishes. When there were vegetables, I thought about the spices that grew in the soil, so I remembered my mother's vegetable garden, and there were always a few spiced vegetables and cumin on the ground. It doesn't seem like enough. I remember seeing a seedling in front of the flowerpot in front of whose house, saying that the seedlings dug by relatives in Henan were so fragrant that people could not forget it, called Jing mustard. Search the Internet, collect seeds, and sow the ground. In a few days, the seedlings came out, densely packed, and the logistics women came to pull out. Soon, Ana of Meizhou also planted it, called me to see it, and told me that what she planted was not thorn mustard, it was called basil, and it was also called Jin Buchang. It can be compared from the stems, leaves, and flowers, similar plant types, similar leaves, and similar pagoda flowers covered with fluff. Crouched, thin and detailed, the basil leaves are slightly narrower and greener in color. Both kinds of herbs are in and out of the Chinese medicine classics, and they must have been related to the past.

Three basils were dug up and planted in large clay pots on the roof of the building. Water the rice and put on the grass and wood ash. Basil seedlings grow happily, divide the stems, pull out the leaves, and lift a spike inflorescence. Regardless of meat, I love picking basil leaves to taste. Recently, it was found that several cats also tasted good. The old cat, who had come from straying, had a broken tail. Somehow they gave birth to cubs, barked weakly, and looked around for food. Under everyone's feeding, the gall is fat, the kitten goes upstairs, takes the cardboard box in the corner as the home, eats and plays, plays and eats, and does not think about the "rat". I crawled to the roof and found my potted plants, and I had a paradise. When I was drying my clothes, I always bumped into them, or slept in the shade of herbs, or played hide-and-seek around the basin, or dragged the stems and leaves to play, or even pulled the sticks into the pot. Although it was exquisite and would be covered by scratching the soil, I found it and dug it up with a small shovel and threw it into the flower pond. Materia Medica has a record: "Often watered with fishy water, rice slippery water, mud ditch water, it is fragrant and lush, and it is not suitable for dung water." "Basil loves cleanliness the most.

Approaching a small plant, I used to ask about its origin and personality, especially vanilla basil. Regarding the pharmacopoeia records of basil, most of them are in the south, such as Guangxi Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lingnan Medicine, etc. Basil is like an old Chinese medicine practitioner who walks the folk, and he takes all kinds of diseases: to relieve the wind and qi, to dissolve moisture and consume food, to activate blood, to detoxify the functions, to cure poisonous snake wounds, and to make good medicine for obstetrics and gynecology. I also brew basil tea, boil a pot of tea, throw five or six basil leaves, three or five pieces of herbs, mint leaves, white water reveals light green, light green gives birth to purify human blood weak alkalinity. Basil, it is true that gold does not change.

A lot of basil seeds were harvested. I went back to my hometown in Hubei and distributed it to relatives and friends. Think about it, not to mention the stew, mixing cold vegetables, just sitting on the balcony, the wind blowing flowers and shadows, the aroma of basil swaying, diffusing the room. There is a cold fragrance in the fireworks, how beautiful is this period of time.

(Author: Liang Lingzhi)

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