A thorn tree in the mountain was once cut down by farmers as firewood, but the root is a rarity and a good cure for inflammation.

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In the countryside, when it comes to what plants are frightening, it is naturally those poisonous or prickly plants that are the most frightening, and they will hurt people when they accidentally touch them. therefore, in the past, many farmers did not like those trees with thorns, so they were basically cut down when they saw them, so as not to stab people or livestock, but in order not to waste these trees, they were burned as firewood. Next, the author will introduce a kind of tree with thorns.

In most of the rural mountains north of the Yangtze River Basin in China, there is such a kind of wild tree with thorns, whose thorns usually grow on the edges of leaves and fruiting branches. in my hometown, this kind of tree is called "three needles".

In the rural areas in the past, the living conditions were not as good as they are now, especially the peasant friends living near the mountain areas were basically dependent on the mountain, such as digging up some wild vegetables and wild bacteria on the mountain when they had nothing to eat, digging up some herbs to cure the disease when they were sick, and chopping some firewood back on the mountain when there was no firewood for cooking, and these three needles were a kind of tree that farmers used to cut as firewood in the past.

The trunk of the three needles is light and dry, so it is very suitable for firewood, and because it has thorns, many farmers hate it for fear that it will hurt people, poultry and livestock, so they basically see it grow up, so they cut it and carry it home and save it for firewood.

After June every year, the three needles will produce "attractive" small red wild fruit, which looks like a cherry, but despite the fact that the wild fruit is very good-looking, it is very untasty. The author remembers that when I was a child, I saw that the wild fruit was very good-looking, so I ate it secretly behind my parents' back. As a result, I burst into tears. The wild fruit of the three needles is very bitter, which is comparable to that of Huanglian, so when you see this wild fruit, please don't eat it. I don't know that the post-80s and post-90s rural children were poisonous and few people ate this bitter fruit when they were children.

However, although peasant friends hated this wild tree very much at that time and often regarded it as firewood, they would leave its roots, because the roots of three needles were a rarity that could be used as medicine. In the past, when many old peasant friends in mountainous areas cut down the tree, they would leave the roots and dry them for backup, so what is the use of the roots of the three needles?

The three needles are called "big leaf Berberis". According to Chinese Materia Medica, the root of big leaf Berberis contains alkaloids, which makes it have medicinal value, its taste is bitter and cold, and it has the effect of clearing heat, dryness and dampness, purging fire and detoxification. It can be used to treat acute enteritis, dysentery, jaundice, heat arthralgia, diarrhea, pneumonia, conjunctivitis, carbuncle, blood avalanche, damp-heat diarrhea, oral and tongue sores, sore throat, red swelling, acute nephritis. Tonsillitis, stomatitis, bronchitis and other symptoms.

In the folk, the root of Berberis grandiflora is often used as a substitute for Coptis chinensis, which is a good medicine for inflammation. However, with the improvement of rural living standards and medical standards, farmers no longer have to cut it for firewood and use it as herbs, which makes many people do not know Berberis grandis.

The author reminds: although Berberis macrophylla has a good medicinal value, but the author does not recommend random use, the previous conditions are not good to use, we can do under the understanding.

Dear friends, have you ever used "big leaf Berberis" as firewood before? Welcome to leave a message and exchange!

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