Zhang Xiuxiang came over and laughed when she saw him, "Chunyan, what are you digging? Why aren't you using a medicine hoe?"
Yang Chunyan dug out a piece of thick root that looked similar to a potato, and looked at her with a happy smile, "Take it home and stew it for the best."
Zhang Xiuxiang took it and looked at it, "So this is Gastrodia elata."
Yang Chunyan smiled and squatted down to continue digging. "Lucky, I found four pieces."
"Luckily I came today, otherwise I would have missed it." Zhang Xiuxiang smiled and wiped off the dirt stuck on the gastrodia elata and put it in the basket, "I'll help you dig it."
Zhao Huifang and Li Qiuyue finished picking the three-leaf green seeds and came over. "What good stuff did you two find?"
Zhang Xiuxiang turned around and said, "Chunyan found a few pieces of Gastrodia elata and dug them out right away."
"I've never seen Gastrodia elata before!" Zhao Huifang stepped forward and picked up the Gastrodia elata in the basket. "It looks like a potato!"
Li Qiuyue picked up the piece that Yang Chunyan had just dug out, "This piece is even bigger. Is this thing expensive?"
Yang Chunyan thought that this time was different from later times, and it was still easy to find wild Gastrodia elata. "I don't know, maybe it can be sold for ten yuan per pound?"
After hearing this, Li Qiuyue said happily: "You are lucky to have found valuable herbs right away. These pieces can be sold for a few dollars!"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "This is the first time I have found wild Gastrodia elata after searching for so long. We will not sell these pieces. We will take them back to make duck soup. Eating them can dispel wind and dampness, reduce swelling and relieve pain, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, calm the mind, and clear the liver and improve eyesight."
Li Qiuyue looked at her in surprise, "Is it really so good after eating it?"
Yang Chunyan nodded and said, "I've heard from my old man before that eating Gastrodia elata is good for the body. It's also good for grandpa's eyesight problems." It's a pity that she can't eat anything that promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis now.
Zhang Xiuxiang laughed and said, "I have never eaten any tonic food in my life! I have two old ducks at home. When will I kill one and stew it for a try?"
The four sisters-in-law walked upwards, chatting and laughing. Li Qiuyue suddenly left them behind and pulled up a red mushroom. "Haha, there are several here."
Seeing her face flushed with excitement, Zhao Huifang smiled and shook her head, "I'll pick them all up for you. Let's go over there and take a look."
Not far away, Zhang Xiuxiang found a purple Ganoderma lucidum of average quality on a big tree root, and Yang Chunyan turned around and found one too.
Going up, Yang Chunyan saw two traces of being broken by someone, and turned back to say to the three people: "Someone has come here to collect herbs. Let's go over there and take a look."
After seeing this, Zhao Huifang and the other two nodded and followed her in that direction. Along the way, they found a few Poria cocos plants to dig up, picked them up and carried them on their backs as they continued walking forward.
Yang Chunyan looked around and was attracted by a few purple-red flowers scattered under the embankment. "Sister-in-law, let's go down and take a look. The ones that are blooming seem to be even grass."
Zhao Huifang turned around and looked at her. "Is Lianjicao also a herb?"
"Yes! These two days are just the right time to dig. The tubers of the old stems we dug up can be used for planting."
"Then go down and take a look." Zhao Huifang said, reaching out to help her, "Walk slowly."
Yang Chunyan leaned on the medicine hoe and said, "It's okay, I can walk more steadily on my own."
The four of them got to the bottom of the ridge and saw clearly that there was a large patch of grass growing underneath. The ones in the shade had withered, but there were still a few scattered ones in the sunny areas that were still blooming.
Bletilla striata is a perennial herb of the orchid family. Its flowers are purple, white, blue, yellow and pink, and are particularly beautiful when in bloom.
You can imagine how beautiful this patch of grass will be when it is in full bloom in the spring!
I have heard from herbalists before that there are more than a thousand kinds of wild Chinese medicinal herbs in Ning'an, among which Paris polyphylla, Achyranthes bidentata, Coptis chinensis, Polygonum multiflorum, Aquilaria woods, Bletilla striata... these have the highest yield and the best quality.
I have never found such a big movie before and thought they were bragging, but today I see that it is indeed worthy of its reputation.
Li Qiuyue looked back at the three people in surprise, "There are so many, we can't finish digging until dark."
Yang Chunyan also happily put down the basket, "Yes, I was standing on it just now and the high ridge blocked my view. Fortunately, I came down to take a look."
Bletilla striata has many aliases, in addition to Lianjicao, it is also called Gangen, Baigei, Ruolan, Zhulan, Zilan, etc. The flowering period is in spring. Due to different climates in different places, some places may bloom from late winter to early summer.
Bletilla striata is the dried tuber of the orchid plant Bletilla striata, which has the effects of astringing and stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and promoting tissue regeneration, moistening the lungs and relieving cough.
There is a legend about the origin of Bletilla striata. It is said that during the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a general in Guoji of Wu State. He suffered multiple serious injuries while protecting the King of Wu. The King of Wu ordered the royal doctors to cure him.
The imperial physician cured the general's external injuries, but the general's lungs, which had been coughing up blood due to an arrow wound, could not be healed for a long time. The King of Wu therefore posted a notice to recruit talented people.
A farmer presented a handful of herbal roots and told the method of taking them: dry them, grind them into powder, take half of them orally and apply the other half externally.
The general stopped vomiting blood soon after taking the medicine, and his lung injury began to heal.
When the King of Wu saw that the medicine was indeed effective, he wanted to reward him with money. The farmer did not want any money, but only asked the King to give him a name for the medicine so that it could be included in a medical book and benefit the people of the world.
The King of Wu asked the farmer his name, and the farmer said his name was Baiji. The King of Wu waved his hand and said, from now on, this medicine should be called Baiji!
The sisters-in-law quickly dug up a few and saw that the tubers underneath were growing crowded together.
Yang Chunyan felt that these white hyacinths may have been growing for many years. There are more than a dozen tubers under one tree, and some have even grown three branches.
She remembered that in her previous life, she heard from the technicians in Wang Zhen’s medicine garden that Bletilla striata likes to grow in loose and fertile humus soil.
Once they survive, they will grow exponentially, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to four... The stronger their reproductive ability becomes, the faster they grow, until there is no more space for growth.
Therefore, it is not the case that Bletilla striata will not grow mature tubers after one or two years of planting. Rather, in order to multiply faster in the next year, it is generally not harvested in advance to avoid damaging the new buds and affecting the yield.
Zhang Xiuxiang dug up a tree and shook off the mud on the root tuber. "This thing looks a bit like the water chestnuts that were planted in the brigade's fish pond before."
Zhao Huifang nodded after seeing it, "It really looks a bit like him!"
Li Qiuyue laughed and said, "The brigade's fish ponds have also planted water chestnuts? How come I didn't know that?"
Zhao Huifang: "It happened several years ago. One year, all the heavenly stems dried up and died."
Li Qiuyue: "Oh! No wonder I haven't seen it since I came here. I think the mountain temple is so gloomy and I don't dare to go there."
Zhao Huifang said: "When my grandmother was still alive, she said that the mountain god temple in our brigade was very powerful. Before liberation, even people from the county came to burn incense. Later, when they were trying to dismantle it, those bastards carried the mountain god statue away and threw it into the culvert at the foot of the mountain.
One of the people who did this wicked thing was old man Xu Hongbing. A few days after that bastard threw away the mountain god statue, he went up the mountain and encountered a black bear. When he found it, his face was gnawed away. "
Yang Chunyan and the others said in unison: "It's what he deserves." (End of this chapter)
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