Mention the name "Sadako", it is estimated that many people will think of the famous Japanese horror movie.
It is also because of this movie that many people have a sense of fear for the two words of Sadako.
Did you know that there is a wild fruit in our country that is only one word away from Sadako? It is the female virgin, the majority of netizen friends know?
The virgin is not a terrible plant, nor is it rare. In many parks, scenic spots, or communities and roadsides in the south, in the winter, you will see a lot of wild fruits like raisins on the ground, and it is a female virgin.
Privets are the fruit of large evergreen shrubs or small trees of the genus Privet in the family Pyroceros. It has many names in the history of our country, and it is all some strange names, such as calling it Zhenmu in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and it is also called holly and wax tree in the "Compendium".
In addition, in the "Medical Forest Essentials", the female virgin is named Xiaoye Jelly Paste, and the Lin'an County Tujing calls the Female Virgin "General Tree", in addition to dozens of different titles such as water wax tree, frozen green tree, large wax leaf, water fence, white ash tree and so on.
The Privet tree has a strong vitality, and it grows in the mountains. Also because of its high ornamental value, evergreen in all seasons, and the flowers are luxuriant, and the fruits are bunched like grapes, often planted in the garden as ornamental plants.
This plant is mainly distributed in South China, Southwest China, East China and Central China, of which Hunan, Fujian, Sichuan, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Guizhou provinces have a wide distribution.
I remember when I was a child, in the winter, the village friends would go to the mountains to find the Privet tree, and then pick its fruit to sell for money.
More than 20 years ago, in many villages in the south, people often came to buy female virgins from house to house. Children are happy to pick, and this wild fruit is hung on a bunch of trees, which is also convenient to pick. As long as you can climb trees and dare to climb trees, you often gain a lot. Picking hundreds of pounds a day is not difficult.
Only because no one had planted virgin trees at that time, all of them were wild. Among children, there are often some quarrels and even fights because they are rushing to pick virgins.
However, the female virgins who are picked are not immediately able to sell for money. The branches and leaves must be removed, and they must be boiled in boiling water in a pot, and then fished out and then put in the sun to dry before they can be sold at the market.
At that time, I was also curious, these wild fruits tasted super unpalatable, what did these people buy to do? And the vendor only perfunctorily said that it can be used in medicine. When I grew up, I learned that the original virgin was a precious medicinal herb.
The privet was indeed able to enter the medicine, and the buyer at that time did not deceive people. Moreover, it is also a precious medicinal herb, which has been recorded in many ancient texts.
For example, the "Compendium of Materia Medica", the "Benjing", the early Ming Dynasty characteristic pharmacy introductory classic "Materia Medica Mengxiao", the Ming Dynasty Miao Xiyong's "Shennong Materia Medica", as well as the "Materia Medica", "Materia Medica Renewal", and the modern medical directory "Guangxi Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine" have greatly appreciated the efficacy and role of the female virgin.
Among them, it is recorded in the "Benjing": "The Lord makes up for the five internal organs, nourishes the spirit, and removes hundreds of diseases." Long-term fattening. "From the perspective of Chinese medicine, female virgins are flat in nature and sweet and bitter in taste. It is a relatively peaceful Chinese herbal medicine, which mainly has the effect of relieving heat and sweating, replenishing the emptiness of the body, and also has a certain effect on anorectal diseases such as blood in the stool and hemorrhoids.
And it is worth mentioning that the female virgin is also a commonly used ingredient for soup, and in many common soup recipes on the market, there are female virgins. Moreover, in the folk, it is often used in the soup with yam, guiyuan and so on. Add a little bit to it to nourish.
However, it should be noted that although the virgin is non-toxic, it is cold, so it needs to be eaten with mild, or hot food, otherwise it is easy to cause diarrhea, especially some people who are prone to diarrhea can be used with caution.
In the past, because the wild privet tree was relatively rare, and its demand was also large at that time, there were traders who went to the countryside to buy it.
But now the times are different, many medicinal materials have been artificially planted, which greatly reduces their cost, naturally no one to buy.
But another value of the privet tree has been excavated, that is, this tree is evergreen all year round, the fruit is hanging on the tree like a grape, and the fruit is still very long. In addition, this tree grows fast, is easy to plant, and has no diseases and insect pests, so it is often planted as a greening and ornamental tree.
It should be noted that although this kind of virgin tree is common in some parks and roadsides, the ground is often full of fruit. On the one hand, these trees grow on the side of the road, absorb a lot of toxic gases, and may also spray pesticides. On the other hand, although the female virgin can be medicated and very nourishing, it is still not to be eaten casually, and its taboo is not small.
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