Lu Huanping, a villager of Heli, Guanyang, introduced traditional Chinese medicine to dig the way to get rich.

The picture shows agricultural technicians observing the diseases, pests and growth of seven leaves and one flower.

As the saying goes, rely on the mountain to support the mountain, rely on the water to draw water. Nowadays, there is also such a villager in Chong Gutun, Heli Village, Xinwei Town, Guanyang County, to dig the way to get rich by planting traditional Chinese medicine.

On April 15, the author and his party came to the home of Lu Huanping, a villager in Chong Kwu Tun, Heli Village, and saw that many Chinese medicinal herbs were planted in the mountains, in front and behind the house, mainly with seven leaves and one flower, as well as a small amount of Huangjing and other medicinal materials.

It is understood that the main components of seven leaves and one flower are all kinds of saponins represented by seven leaves and one flower. It has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, relieving swelling and relieving pain, drying the liver and relieving shock. For the treatment of poisonous sores, sore throat, snakebite, fall pain, convulsions and so on.

Lu Huanping said that he had been trying to plant seven leaves and one flower for four years. At that time, he collected wild seedlings from the mountains for trial planting, and achieved success. Because of the good market price, he introduced a large number of seedlings. In addition to picking and planting them on the mountain himself, he also bought seedlings pulled back from the mountains by people from the same village to plant, and now the planting area is more than 2 mu. At present, he is in no hurry to sell, is carefully raising seedlings, but also wants to expand the planting area.

In recent years, the party committee and government of Xinwei Town has attached great importance to it and actively guided farmers to develop the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicine, including seven leaves and one flower, Polygonatum, honeysuckle and so on. At present, the area of Chinese herbal medicine in the town has reached more than 1000 mu. In particular, farmers in some mountain villages use timber forest to develop under-forest planting, and some use the front and rear houses to develop courtyard planting, which has a very good effect on the people in mountain villages to shake off poverty and become rich.