Do you know the white on the side of the road? Do you know how effective it is? This article will tell you the answer.
Artemisia alba is a common plant, this plant is very easy to survive, so it is abundant in many places. But this humble plant is just a weed for most people, they trample on it casually, but this weed is a wild vegetable that can be eaten, it has also had the experience of helping people in the famine era to survive the famine crisis, and more importantly, it has medical value, so let's take a look.
Once a legend
On the mainland, there is a wild vegetable that was once very famous, it is the roadside artemisia. Probably in the Song Dynasty, one year, a wandering beggar appeared in a rural area, this beggar came to a remote village, when he was hungry, a kind local farmer fed him a bowl of porridge to eat, so the beggar survived, and later this farmer saw that he was pitiful, so he arranged a pig breeder for him at home, and then gave the beggar three meals a day as a reward, so the beggar lived in this village.
However, after half a year, due to the drought, the crops in this village have died of drought, so there was a famine in this village that year, and the farmers in the village could only persist bitterly, because of the remoteness, so the government could not send grain in time. In this way, the peasants in this village soon appeared to be on the verge of running out of food.
And when the beggar saw this scene, he was also very upset, so he went around trying to find a way to raise food for the villagers, because he was a beggar, so he did not think of a way. So he wandered around, and soon, he found that there were some white artemisia on the side of the road, which made him very happy, because in his hometown, there was a precedent for white artemisia as a dish, so he immediately gathered the villagers to publicize the use of white artemisia as food, at first the villagers did not believe it, and then some villagers ventured to try it, found that the white artemisia was really edible, so the villagers here began to collect white artemisia everywhere, because there are many wilderness here, so the white artemisia production is rich, so the villagers here rely on the white artemisia to survive the famine, and finally calculated, Artemisia alba has revived nearly 300 villagers.
Farmers are passed down from generation to generation
In this way, Artemisia annua became famous in one fell swoop, and after that famine era passed, the farmers there were very grateful for the life-saving grace of Artemisia alba, so each family would plant a white artemisia in their own yard, and they would sometimes use artemisia to make a good dish and offer it in front of the temple to show that they did not forget the life-saving grace of artemisia.
So the story of artemisia annua is very popular among the local villagers, where the villagers began to make efforts for the spread of artemisia, whenever there are children of the next generation in the village, the older generation of villagers will tell the children how artemisia annua helps the villagers solve the problem of famine, and some villagers also specially make a dish for the newborn children, so that these children can remember the merits of artemisia. In this way, the story of artemisia alba has been passed down from generation to generation, and most people know that artemisia annua can be eaten.
Later, the villagers there also began to introduce artemisia to the village, they would tell the people of the village how to eat artemisia, and also told them that the white artemisia had helped the villagers survive the famine crisis, and even, when the villagers came to this village, there were villagers who made them a meal of artemisia vulgaris, although the taste was not very good, but it had a certain edible value, so the fact that artemisia alba could be eaten became a fact that people knew at that time.
Later, the reputation of artemisia alba spread widely, some poor people in the time of not being able to eat, will go to the field to collect some artemisia as ingredients, some rich families also rose up the action of artemisia vulgaris cooking, however, their cooking methods are very exquisite, mostly with some high-grade ingredients cooking, so artemisia alba has become a edible wild vegetable.
Today's value
Although today's artemisia already an authentic wild vegetable, but with the development of science, some people have found that artemisia alba has a certain medicinal value, this plant has a certain curative effect on some special diseases, because it is very easy to survive, so there are also some farmers will grow this plant, artemisia alba because of its medical value, so it can also bring economic benefits to these farmers, so many areas have risen to grow artemisia.
Now many pharmaceutical research and development companies have come to collect artemisia, because the yield of artemisia alba is particularly high, and the quality of related drugs made of a good growing artemisia is also particularly good, so artemisia is more valued by farmers, and some farmers will also take advantage of the leisure period to collect artemisia alba, and the annual collection can also increase a small income for farmers.
Nowadays, artemisia alba as an ingredient is also very popular, because this ingredient contains a lot of nutrients, so in some exquisite restaurants, often to farmers high-priced artemisia, their cooking methods are also very advanced, due to the addition of some high-end accompaniments, plus the loudness of farmhouse dishes, so in the city's high-end dinner table, often appear its figure.
Nowadays, artemisia alba is already a home-cooked dish in some ordinary rural areas, and this ingredient is a must-have dish in some farmers' homes because it is easy to collect. Sometimes a blood of distinguished guests came, and some farmers would also use this ingredient to entertain guests, one is to show respect, and the other is to express the remembrance of the famine years.
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