Its fruit is like a cherry farmer when weeds are pulled out but do not know it is a precious thousand-year-old heart.

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As the saying goes, "the plan of the year lies in spring." now it is the busy season in the countryside, and farmers are busy with all kinds of work in the fields, such as land preparation, irrigation, weeding, and so on, looking forward to hard work in exchange for a year's bumper harvest. Therefore, all kinds of weeds on the edge of the field will be pulled out mercilessly, but many farmers do not know that some weeds are of great use. for example, this kind of rattan weed, which is common near the farmland, is actually a precious herb, and it is a pity to weed it out like this.

This kind of weed should have been seen by many rural friends. Its fruit is red and transparent when it is ripe, shining, much like a cherry in the countryside. When I was a child, I often took it off and played with it. Despite its good-looking appearance, I couldn't eat it. When I was a child, I tasted one curiously. It was very bitter. It was really a waste of such a high "appearance". Later, I know why it is so bitter, because its name is "bitter eggplant", so it can not be bitter! Did you do such "stupid things" when you were kids?

Bitter eggplant also has a name, called "the heart is not rotten for a thousand years", its medicinal value is very high, very precious. In the Classic of Shennong Materia Medica, it is listed as the top grade, and leaves, vines, fruits and roots can be used in medicine, which have different functions. Leaves have the role of hemostasis and detoxification, grinding into the end of external application, can treat traumatic bleeding. Rattan can cure infantile wind, fruit can clear eyes, for red eyes, toothache has a good effect. In addition, its root value is the highest, its vitality is tenacious, and it can send out new branches after being cut off, so it has the nickname of "not rotten heart for a thousand years".

The role of bitter eggplant is mentioned in the National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine: "clearing away heat and detoxification." Mainly for acne, scabies, esophageal cancer, uterine cancer, breast cancer, traumatic bleeding. " According to modern medical research, Sophora flavescens can isolate 11 compounds with bacteriostatic effect, which can be used to treat cold and fever, cholecystitis, gallstone, icteric hepatitis, nephritis edema, uterine cancer, lung cancer and other diseases. It has a certain auxiliary effect. (the information comes from the Internet. Please consult a professional doctor first if you need to use it.)

Readers, do you know bitter eggplant? Next time you see it, don't hoe it like a weed!

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