Summer solstice is the harvesting season of wheat, in recent days back to the hometown busy farming, found that many people in the village are digging and picking plantain, plantain for urban people, usually rarely encountered, it is only in the rural fields will grow wild plantain, plantain is more special, easy to distinguish, its leaves are covered with wrinkled lines, flower arrows are very long, the leaves are close to the ground.
Now this season, plantain has fully grown, grown into a state of seedlings, there are many vendors driving to our village to collect, dried plantain can sell for six or seven yuan per kilogram, the old people in the village have nothing else to do, some people specially take small shovels to carry baskets, all over the mountains to dig plantain.
In the countryside, the number of plantains is very large, the number of no matter how much can not withstand a large number of digging, a person can dig an average of six or seven pounds a day, after the plantain is dried, there can only be one or two pounds left, or even a pound is less, on the surface it looks like plantain grows very large, in fact, after drying is very small, dig a basket, can not dry a bag, but for the elderly in the village, it is also an income.
Probably speaking of this, there are many people who have begun to raise the bar, how much do you want, I will dig for you, some of our villages are, people who say such things, are not thinking through the brain, the number of plantains growing in each season is limited, even if the plantains in your village grow more, when digging, you must keep the root system intact as much as possible, digging plantain is a slow job, there is no root system, others do not want it when drying.
From the Internet checked, about what is the role of plantain, do not check do not know, in fact, a lot of effect, good quality plantain dried after the market to sell, a kilogram of price can be sold to dozens of pieces, in recent years, more and more people have seen the role of plantain, fresh plantain after processing, it can replace tea to soak water to drink.
According to the < Materia Medica subject > recorded, plantain can be medicinal, with diuretic, heat clearing, blindness, expectorant pharmacological effects, this can be searched on Baidu Encyclopedia, there are also records on the Internet about workshop grass, plantain on the surface looks inconspicuous, in fact, its application is very much, in the countryside, plantain is also a rare Traditional Chinese medicine.
In the southern region, plantain is also called pig vegetables, wild plantain dug home, can be used directly to feed pigs, in some areas, plantain is also a very important economic crop, but we have less contact, in the eyes of most people, plantain is not valuable, may be because the amount of plantain around you is very large, you will think it is not valuable.