Peking opera artist Mei Lanfang planted dozens of morning glory flowers in a spacious beijing home, or vines climbed between the fences and ropes climbed up the eaves. Every day, he got up and stood in front of the flower stand to watch the flowers and practice his skills. Due to the good management, its flowers are as large as the mouth of a bowl, and they are quiet and elegant. Qi Baishi donated a painting entitled "A Hundred Books of Morning Glory like a Bucket, Three Years without Dreams to the Mei Family", which was passed down as a good story by the art world.
There are poetry clouds: the walls and waist corners are green, and the grass is idle. It is also the morning glory that is described.
Morning glory is a kind of vine for ornamentation, wrapped around some small crown trees or fences, many people in front of the house and behind the house, trumpet-shaped flowers, this is called morning glory, its mature seeds are called morning glory. Although morning glory is beautiful and common in life, the real protagonist of us today is its ripe seed, the morning glory.
Ming Dynasty Wu Kuan's "Praise morning glory" poem:
The herb contains medicines, and the grass is seen morning glory.
Between the winds and hedges, the sound of vines is very silky.
Whoever is a purple jade hairpin, the leaves are dense and the flowers are still thick.
The sun is the plough, and it is the king.
The yin is solitary, and the next dose is seen.
Who is to conspire with the pedantics?
Chinese medicine believes that morning glory is sweet, cold and toxic, has the effect of insecticidal accumulation, phlegm elimination, laxative water laxative effect, can cure polyester insect disease, reverse asthma cough, water swelling, two stools and other symptoms. There are two interesting little stories about the origin of the morning glory.
[Gu Shi 1]: A farmer's child suffers from a large abdominal disease, and the village doctor gives a scattered dose to heal. The family then asked the child to lead the calf to send a thank you. The doctor insisted on not, saying: "This medicine was collected from the field, I don't know what its name is, since the child is leading the cow, this medicine is called morning glory." Tao Hongjing said: "This medicine began to come out of the field, and people gave thanks to the medicine, so it was named after it." Morning glory is divided into black morning glory and white morning glory, also known as black ugly and white ugly, and its name is hidden by ugly cattle.
[Story 2]: Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a village where many people got a strange disease. Bloating is unbearable, limbs are swollen, stools are dry and there are bugs. Many doctors can't cure this strange disease, and people have been living in pain. There was a shepherd boy who lived with cattle and was very clever. One day, the cow suddenly spoke to him: "There is a big mountain in the distance, and there are many small flowers like trumpets growing in the mountain, and I will take you to find its seeds, and I can cure the disease of the whole village." After hearing this, the shepherd boy took the dry food and led the cattle to look for the distant mountains. After all the hardships, the shepherd boy finally found a small flower like a trumpet, and led the cow back to his hometown with the seeds of the flower. The sick villagers ate the seeds of the flowers, and they all miraculously cured the disease and restored their health. In order to commemorate the shepherd boy, everyone called the seed of this flower "morning glory" and planted it in the ground to heal more people. It is also recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that Li Shizhen, a master of traditional Chinese medicine in China, once used morning glory to treat a bloated Mrs. Zong's family, so that she took morning glory end soap pod cream pills, even if it was profitable, a swelling dissipation. Morning glory is divided into air, through three burns, qi is smooth and sputum is eliminated, and up and down is fast.
I like the sweet appearance of the morning glory like a trumpet and I like the simple and unpretentious appearance of the morning glory. Morning glory in Chinese herbal medicine plays a great role in diarrhea underwater gas, treatment of edema and sputum stasis. I would like to say for it: "Although the appearance of the morning glory is ordinary and unremarkable, we can still understand and understand that it is a good medicine that can cure diseases and save people through these interesting little knowledge stories." It is hoped that in the future, morning glory can play a greater role in traditional Chinese medicine so that its story will be passed down for a long time. ”