Poppies, when not associated with drugs, their beauty is really stunning, bright and delicate and pure and flawless, to the depths of people's hearts.
Initially, poppies were very respected. In ancient Egypt, it was called the "divine flower". In China, it is celebrated by many people in poetry. The Ming Dynasty geographer Xu Xiake's "Ying poppy flowers are red, thousands of leaf clusters, the flowers are very large and dense, and the richness does not reduce the elixir" and the Ming Dynasty writer Wang Shimao's "After peony medicine, poppies are the most prosperous, and they are good for thousands of shapes", both praised its beauty.
Poppies have also been endowed with a lot of feelings, and the Tang Dynasty poet Yong Tao wrote in "The West Returns to the Sloped Valley": "After walking through the dangers, I feel like I have arrived at home." Thousands of miles of sorrow dispersed today, and the first time I saw the rice bladder flowers before the horse. "Rice capsules are poppies. The colorful poppies made the wanderers who had traveled through the arduous journey feel sad and feel the joy of returning home.
Even the poppy family, the poppy family, which is the source of poppies, was cherished at first. This poppy native to the mountains of the eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor, Egypt and other places, as the Ming Dynasty medicinal scholar Li Shizhen said: "In fact, the shape is like a poppy, its rice is like a millet, it is like a valley, and it can be offered, so it has various names." ”
Its medicinal properties were recognized in the Bronze Age. Since the Song Dynasty, many medical books have recorded the medicinal value of poppies, for example, Su Song, a medicinal scientist of the Northern Song Dynasty, said of her in the "Tujing Materia Medica": "Practice the atmosphere, chase away evil heat, cure the stomach and stagnation of phlegm in the chest." Kou Zongxi, a medicinal scientist of the Song Dynasty, said it in "The Derivation of Materia Medica": "Cold. Eat more stools and move bladder gas. ”
In medicine, it is often used to taste sour, slightly cold poppy shells into medicine, prescription is also known as "imperial rice shell" or "poppy shell", generally harvested in the summer, "where it is washed with water, remove the stem and fascia, take the outer thin skin, dry and finely cut, and stir-fry with rice vinegar into the medicine." There are also honey stir-fried and honey-scorched people. ”
The Northern Song Dynasty writer Su Shi's "Taoist people persuade to drink chicken and soda water, and children can fry Yingpu soup", reflects the situation that poppies nourish people's bodies and minds. The seeds of the poppy can be squeezed for oil, and "the young seedlings are very good for vegetable food".
Poppy rice can also relieve symptoms of danshi poisoning. In ancient times, some princes and nobles and scholars often arbitrarily took stalactites, sulfur, purple quartz, cinnabar, androgen, white alum, Zeng Qing, Cishi, white quartz, red stone and other mineral drugs composed of stalactite scatter, five-stone scatter, etc., these drugs are hot and violent, can produce a confusing short-term effect, make people feel hot and even passionate after taking it, in fact, this is a chronic poisoning.
Kou Zongxi believes that it is better for people who take danshi to eat poppy rice: "It is very suitable for people who take danshi to boil this water and add honey for soup. Ma Zhi, a medicinal scientist of the Song Dynasty, also said in "Kaibao Materia Medica": "Danshi launches, does not eat and drink, and bamboo asphalt boils for porridge, which is extremely beautiful." ”
Unfortunately, poppies become very dangerous when they become raw materials for making drugs. Poppy is the main raw material for the preparation of opium, containing morphine, codeine, nascapine, papaverine and other more than 30 kinds of alkaloids, when the poppy fruit is not yet ripe, that is, when the green bud is formed, do not damage the hard skin inside the poppy, cut a knife on the green skin outside, the juice will flow out, collect these juices with porcelain, dry it, and obtain unrefined opium.
Raw opium was once highly valued by ancient Greek and Roman physicians, and if used correctly in small amounts, it could become a sedative and other therapeutic drugs. However, the illusory and narcotic pleasure of opium is addictive, and like drugs such as heroin, chronic poisoning is multiplied in the case of pleasure, and death from breathing difficulties in severe cases.
The powerful side effects of poppies devoured people little by little, and from 1840 to 1842, the first opium war launched by Britain against China, opium was imported in large quantities, and it was a cruel destruction, and many people died from opium consumption. For example, the last empress Wanrong died of opium poisoning.
In her journal from July 16, 1938 to July 10, 1939, Wanrong recorded that she bought more than 740 taels of Yishou ointment (actually opium), and smoked an average of about 2 taels a day. By the end of the pseudo-Manchu years, her two legs could not move, her eyes could not see light, she was close to blindness, and she often covered her face with a folding fan when she looked at people, and looked very terrifying through the bone gap of the fan.
The gentle face of the past is also beautiful, and it used to be like a poppy, gently blooming a simple and bright smile. I wonder if when she hugged Poppy, would she think that she would end up becoming a completely uncontrollable madman? Poppies, finally seen as the flower of evil.
In fact, during the Yuan Dynasty, medical scientists had a preliminary understanding of the side effects of opium poppy and recommended that it be used with caution. Zhu Zhenheng, a medicinal scientist of the Yuan Dynasty, pointed out: "Today's people cough in vain, and use more corn husks to stop robbery; and humid heat diarrhea, use it to stop astringency. Although his ability to cure diseases is urgent, killing people is like a sword, and it should be deeply guarded. However, the world did not remember Zhu Zhenheng's advice.
In the Yuan Dynasty, some people began to consume opium. The opium consumed by the Yuan dynasty was not made in China itself, but was obtained from some wars. As a trophy, opium was still popular at the time. In the Ming Dynasty, although poppies were still precious and rare flowers and trees, Chinese gradually understood the production, manufacture and consumption of opium. Evil is the only way to drill.
And the evil one is not poppies; Evil is the heart of some people, who are willing to accept temptation in a destructive way. Throughout the ages, there have been many drug addicts and many drug producers and drug dealers. Saying that poppies are horrible is nothing more than an excuse and a means for some to escape responsibility.
Time, little by little, passes by. Poppies, still fluttering in the wind. Now people, I am afraid that it is difficult to praise it anymore, but they are afraid to avoid it. Innocent flowers who are ignorant of the world are labeled in this way. Good and evil, beauty and ugliness, are often between people's thoughts.
