The ancients called it cheap grass because it had thorns all over the body and made farmers hate it. Now 15 jin is a rare commodity.

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After dinner in the afternoon, the author took the children for a walk on the edge of the village and saw weeds that they had not seen for a long time by the side of the road. Speaking of this weed, many peasant friends hate it, and many peasant friends also like it. This weed is small thistle. Speaking of small thistle, it must be no stranger to friends living in the countryside, it is a very common weed in rural areas, but also a common weed in farmland.

Small thistle in ancient times, was called "cheap grass" by the ancients, so called small thistle, in fact, in Tao Hongjing's book "Collection of Materia Medica" pointed out, "there are many fields, prescription medicine is not reused, is cheap." It is said that there are so many small thistles in the wild that they are easy to get, so they appear to be very humble, hence the name base grass.

In fact, the reason why many farmers hate small thistle is not to say how cheap it is, but because small thistle is adaptable, strong in life, and propagates a lot, and small thistle likes to grow in farmland or near orchards. It will eat the nutrients of crops, resulting in poor growth of crops, which is persecuting crops.

In addition, the small thistle is covered with thorns all over the body, including thorns on the leaves, which is easy to stab people. In addition, the stalk of the small thistle is very tough, which makes it difficult to get rid of the small thistle in the farmland or orchard, so the small thistle is hated by many farmers.

In fact, although the small thistle is very humble and will persecute crops, its value is still very great. It is not only an edible wild vegetable, but also a kind of medicinal Chinese herbal medicine.

When the small thistle just grows in spring, its tender leaves and tender whole grass can be eaten as wild vegetables, and its nutritional value is very good, which is rich in vitamins and minerals, especially its calcium content is very high, which is higher than that of many vegetables. it has good dietotherapy value.

In addition, small thistle also has a very good medicinal value, its whole herb can be used in medicine, with the effect of cooling blood to stop bleeding, removing blood stasis and detumescence, and can be used in the treatment of bleeding, hematemesis, urine bleeding, hematochezia, bleeding, traumatic bleeding, carbuncle, sores and other symptoms, especially the hemostatic effect is very good, and it is also commonly used in folk hemostasis.

It is precisely because the small thistle has these functions, although it will persecute crops to a certain extent and make farmers hate it, there are still many farmers love it. In the countryside where the author lives, there are farmers who specialize in growing small thistles to make money. as far as I know, the average price of small thistles is about 15 yuan per catty, compared with what it used to be called "cheap grass", this price is also rare.

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