The root of this weed is like ginseng, which was once a cure for farmers in mountainous areas, and now it has become a rich grass for 35 jin.

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Friends who have lived in rural areas must know that weeds are the most common in the countryside, and some weeds seem to be inconspicuous, but in fact they still play a great role. For example, some weeds can be eaten as wild vegetables, and some can be used as medicinal materials.

With the improvement of the living standards of farmers' friends and the improvement of farmland production, many farmers have gradually given up planting traditional crops, such as wheat, rice, corn, and so on, and began to plant some other cash crops, such as medicinal herbs, fruits, and so on, while some weeds that did not attract the attention of farmers in the past have become cash crops valued by this kind of farmers.

In the morning, the author followed Lao Liu, an old peasant friend in the village, to his farmland. In Lao Liu's farmland, the author saw not traditional crops, such as corn and soybeans, but some "special" crops such as weeds, one of which attracted the author's attention. It can be said that this kind of weed is quite common in the rural mountains, and the author used it when I was a child. This kind of weed is "Polygonum polygonum", but it is also called "boxing ginseng" because its root is similar to ginseng.

Speaking of this kind of weed, in fact, in the rural areas of Gansu, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Anhui, there should be many old peasant friends in mountainous areas who should be very familiar with it. Boxing ginseng likes to grow in hillside grasslands and hilltop meadows at an altitude of 800m to 3000 meters.

Lao Liu said that in the past, as long as the poor people in the mountain areas were sick, they would not go to the hospital to see a doctor, but went to the mountains to dig some weeds to use, among which boxing ginseng was one of them, so many peasant friends of the older generation also loved it very much. use it as a free cure, but now that the living conditions are good, many farmers in the mountains also plant it and regard it as a weed to get rich.

So what are the specific functions of all of them? The author also consulted the relevant materials. According to the records of "Chinese Materia Medica", the root similar to ginseng can be used as medicine, which has the effects of clearing heat and dampness, cooling blood and stopping blood, detoxifying and dispersing knots. It can be used to treat symptoms such as lung heat cough, fever shock, dysentery, fever diarrhea, hematemesis, haemorrhage, hemorrhoids, carbuncle, etc.

It is precisely because boxing ginseng has these functions that it is loved by farmers in mountain areas, and now many peasant friends have begun to specialize in planting boxing ginseng.

Lao Liu told me that boxing ginseng generally began to be planted in early April, and it is relatively easy to manage compared to general crops such as corn and rice. As long as we pay attention to the requirements of temperature, water, light, air and nutrients in different growth stages, we can basically maintain yield, and it is also a perennial weed that can be harvested for several years at a time. And now the market price of boxing ginseng is relatively good, and its price is generally 25 to 35 yuan per jin, which is also a kind of rich grass for farmers in mountainous areas.

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