Chapter 335 Chapter 336: Sea Sands
Zhou Huaian ate a few and then stopped, "Forget it, I'd better eat less. Alas! I told you that I almost suffocated to death that time. It was my grandma who made some herbs for me to drink and I was able to defecate."
Yang Chunyan picked all the branches he had climbed down. "You were young and had a weak stomach back then. Eating too much would easily cause constipation. It's okay to eat a few more now. I tell you, myrtle is also a good herb."
Zhou Huaian looked at her in surprise, "Is something that makes you unable to poop also a medicine?"
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Its roots, leaves, and fruits are all medicine. I can't eat wax gourd, but eating myrtle can help to stabilize pregnancy. Myrtle mutton soup can also treat asthma."
Zhou Huaian looked at those myrtles as if they were treasures, "What good stuff! Let's pick the fruits and dig all these back."
"It's a shame to dig up such a big one. Myrtle flowers are pretty. Let's dig up some smaller ones to plant in the spring."
"Got it!" Zhou Huaian broke off a branch, "You pick the ones below, and I'll pick the ones above. Do we need to dry this too?"
"Hmm!" Yang Chunyan thought about it and smiled, "These are not enough for Jiaming and the others to eat."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "That's right. They say that little brats can make their father poor. Fortunately, we only have one in the future."
Yang Chunyan thought that this might be because she wanted a child too much in her previous life. "I think one is too few. Not to mention the loneliness, if we leave, there will be no one to discuss things with the child."
"You mean you want to have an extra child?" Zhou Huaian turned his head and looked at her in surprise. "I heard that the Guanyin Brigade arrested those who had extra children and took away their pots."
"Yeah! It's scary just thinking about it. Let's wait until this baby is older before we do it!"
"Yes, let's wait and see in a few years."
They picked all the ripe ones and filled the basket. Yang Chunyan couldn't help but eat a few more.
There are many aliases for myrtle, including Hypericum, Myrtle, Myrtle, and Lotus...
The medicinal material is the dried fruit of the Myrtaceae plant Myrtle, which is sweet and astringent and neutral in nature. It has the effects of nourishing blood and stopping bleeding, astringing the intestines and consolidating semen. It is forbidden to be taken by people with constipation.
Myrtle root: has the effects of dispelling wind and activating collaterals, astringing and stopping diarrhea. Leaves: astringent and stopping diarrhea, and stopping bleeding.
Seeing her eating, Zhou Huaian couldn't help but eat a few as well. "After a while, there will be more fruits in the mountains, such as persimmons, jujubes, chestnuts, pears... Oh! And wild grapes."
He turned around and looked at Yang Chunyan, "Let me tell you, Ding Ding Cat and I found a nest of wild grapes on the mountain over the bamboo forest. They were as sweet as honey. Wait a minute and I'll take you to pick them."
"Okay! Let's dig one up in the spring and plant it by the wall."
"Yes! I have to remember it well. I need to dig up jujubes, myrtles, wild grapes, and two nests of persimmon trees and pear trees. How about planting them in the open space outside the south wall?"
Yang Chunyan thought it was a good idea and nodded happily, "Okay, we will plant various fruit trees in that vacant land in the future."
"As you wish." Zhou Huaian leaned forward and kissed her, "Smile more in the future, okay?"
Yang Chunyan glared at him in reproach, "It's okay to smile foolishly!"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "My wife looks good even when she smiles silly."
"You're so smooth-talking." Yang Chunyan patted him and climbed up the hillside. The fern vines on the hillside attracted her. "Huai'an, there are a lot of golden sand vines growing there."
Zhou Huaian looked at it and said, "What's so strange about this? There are so many of them in the mountains. It would be best to cut them and take them home to dry and use them as a fire starter."
"Of course, the fern vine is nothing special, but the spores on its leaves can also be used as a medicinal material when they mature. The name of the medicine is Sea Gold Sand. Because it is difficult to collect, the price is not cheap."
"Sea Gold Sand, it sounds like it's something valuable." Zhou Huaian became interested after hearing it, "I didn't expect this thing is also a medicine, let's go and take a look."
When the two approached, Yang Chunyan saw that the spore leaves of the golden sand vine had turned orange-red. "They are ripe. Fortunately, it rained this morning, otherwise we would have to wait until tomorrow morning to harvest them."
Zhou Huaian took out the urea bag from the backpack and asked, "Why can we harvest after it rains?"
"After the rain, the leaves are moist, so when we cut the vines, the spores hidden inside the leaves are not easy to fall off."
"Oh!" Zhou Huaian handed her the urea bag, "Please pull it aside, I'll do the cutting."
"Well! Be gentle. This stuff is not easy to collect. If you cut all of them, you can only collect about one or two taels at most."
"After we get them back, do we need to dry them like we do with rapeseed to get the spores out?"
"No need to beat it. Take it home and put it in a bamboo basket. Place it in a sheltered place to dry. Rub it with your hands to let the spore powder on the back of the leaves fall off. Then use a flour sieve to sift out the stems and leaves. Then you will be able to see that the shiny spore powder is golden yellow, finer than the finest river sand."
"Not only is it troublesome, but it's also more hair than meat. If it's cheap, there's no point in doing it."
"Silly boy, its stems and leaves are also medicine. I burn its leaves into ashes, burn the stems until they are charred black on the outside and browned inside, grind them into powder, and mix them with sesame oil to treat scalds and burns."
Zhou Huaian never dreamed that the humble golden sand vine could have such an effect. "Is it so amazing?"
Yang Chunyan looked at him proudly, "Of course! I told you that boiling its roots in water can also cure mumps."
Zhou Huaian said admiringly: "Yan'er, you remember so many herbs. You should learn medicine from your father-in-law when you are at home."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "My old man said I'm not cut out for it." She thought to herself: I had no interest in learning it before. I didn't even like to go collecting herbs. I learned these things only to make a living in my previous life.
Zhou Huaian put the cut golden sand vine into the urea bag and said, "Yes, you are so timid."
"Tsk~" Yang Chunyan rolled her eyes, "You still have the nerve to say that I'm timid. I don't know when I dare not go out after dark, and I need someone to accompany me to the toilet."
“…” Zhou Huaian was speechless and could only pretend to be deaf and dumb and work hard.
The two men finished cutting the sea sand and filled three urea bags. They then dug up the roots and walked up. When they reached the top of the slope, they saw the gardenia patch.
The scientific name of Jinsha Teng is Liriope sempervirens, which generally grows in shady and wet hillsides or roadside bushes. It is a perennial climbing herb with slender rhizomes and a plant height of 1-4 meters. There are two narrow edges on the rachis, and the pinnae are numerous, about 9-11 cm apart, opposite to each other on the short side of the rachis, and flat.
Lygodium japonicum is the mature spore of the perennial climbing fern Lygodium japonicum. Its name is related to its spore appearance. The Compendium of Materia Medica records: "It is yellow like fine sand. The reason why it is called sea is because it is magical."
Sea Sand: Sweet, salty and cold in nature. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting diuresis and relieving stranguria.
"Bencao Jingshu" also records that people with difficulty urinating and stranguria due to insufficient kidney water and true yin should not take it.
(End of this chapter)
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