Farmers say it was once a cure for the poor, and now it costs 60 yuan a jin to make a fortune.

As the saying goes, "rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, rely on the water to draw water". It is very suitable for farmers living in rural mountainous areas, while in the rural mountains, there are also a variety of wild plant resources, among which there are many useful wild plants and wild trees, such as wild fungi, such as wild fruit trees and weeds that can treat diseases. Below, the author introduces such a peculiar wild tree, which is loved by the old peasant friends who live in rural and mountainous areas.

In the morning, the author followed several old peasant friends in the village to go to the mountain for treasure, saying that they were looking for a kind of wild tree and its wild fruit. The author was very curious about this kind of wild fruit, because according to the old peasant friends, the wild fruit of this kind of tree is very similar to the vegetable "pumpkin" we usually eat, but it is much smaller than the pumpkin. The fruit of this tree is really like a pumpkin, so farmers call it "wild pumpkin".

In fact, the name of this kind of tree and its fruit is called "calculating plate". It is said that in ancient times, this wild fruit is very similar to the abacus beads at that time, so it is called a plate.

Calculus plate is a common wild tree in China, but because it grows in mountainous areas, most people do not know it except old peasant friends. There are more than a dozen kinds of soil names, such as Li Lianzi, wild pumpkin, persimmon pepper, abacus bead, octave orange, steamed bread fruit, water golden melon, red orange, red melon, blood papaya, wild melon seed, octagonal orange, Hawthorn, stalk orange, wild cattail and so on. There should be many peasant friends who may know each other.

Despite the strange growth of this plate, it has a lot of skills. since ancient times, it has been a folk cure, and in the past, it was often a cure for poor people in many mountainous areas, and it was deeply loved by farmers in mountainous areas.

So what is the function of counting plates? According to the National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine, the whole body of the plate is covered with treasures, and its roots, stems, fruits and leaves can be used as medicine, among which the roots and leaves have the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, expelling wind and activating collaterals. it can be used to treat cold and fever, sore throat, malaria, acute gastroenteritis, dyspepsia, dysentery, rheumatoid arthritis, injury, leucorrhea, dysmenorrhea and other symptoms.

On the other hand, the fruit of calculus plate has the effects of clearing heat and dehumidification, detoxification and promoting pharynx, promoting qi and promoting blood circulation, and can be used to treat dysentery, diarrhea, jaundice, malaria, turbid, sore throat, toothache, colic and other symptoms. It is precisely because the calculation plate has so many good functions that it is deeply loved by farmers in mountainous areas.

And the old farmers I followed also told me that despite the fact that there are a lot of plates in the mountains, it is a rarity in the city, especially its pumpkin-like fruit, which can be bought for about 60 yuan per jin in the city. it can also be regarded as the "rich fruit" of us mountain farmers, and we can earn a little money to subsidize the family. However, the old peasant friend also said that it is good to pick wild fruit and must not cut down trees, otherwise it will be useless in the future.

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