Burdock myth (1) 
 

Source: economic herald (jinan) 

        Burdock, as a kind of health food now get the favour of broad consumer, not only best-selling domestic market, also exported to Japan. Why people favor burdock? Burdock produced in where? What are the medicinal value of it? This paper will reveal its secrets. 
 
        Poets Su Songceng describes burdock, "such as taro long leaves in real like acinus and brown, the shell as chestnut spiny, root has great, cook shavings YouYi." Ming li shizhen said its "cut miao tao as the height, take root cooked, had to pulp, cloud the yi people"; Compendium of materia medica are detailed in the "evil spirit of twelve meridians, in addition to the five zang-organs"; The doctors don't record "said its" long take intellectual man fit the old resistance ". Chinese big dictionary of modern Chinese materia medica ", is interpreted burdock can promote growth, inhibiting tumor, and resistance to fungal plant, the carotene content of carrot 110 times, the second vegetable. In the root class plant, the most abundant protein and calcium and plant fiber, and prevent cancer, eliminate carcinogens ingredients. 
 
        Burdock native to Asia, from northeast to southwest China have wild burdock distribution. Around 940 AD, from China to Japan. After many years of breeding in Japan, many varieties. The current cultivation and edible burdock countries and regions, mainly in Japan and China's shandong province and xuzhou. China's basic do not make vegetable cultivation in the past, a few cultivation used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In recent years, with export cultivation area is expanding, the people also began to eat, burdock tea is become one of the people to drink after dinner. 
 
        In China, there is a story about burdock found that good. Allegedly, in 648 BC, in the small town is located in the jiaodong peninsula in central - qi city (now weifang paying fort qi city village street), one day, the genial sunshine on flow on the overflow cui red flowers, the birds singing sound leisurely on the branches. A scholar with a pretty girl in my way, two people lang lang laughter from time to time. Scholar suddenly found a plant leaves far, heart-shaped edge serration, densely pilose, myself have never seen of plants, hence yell are enjoy flower girl. "This is Bang! The wedding banquet: have you eaten that day. This stuff but tribute, the average person is rarely, even if have also is sent to the palace, father hou will keep sign union, call on Zhou Wang as specialty in qilu city." The girl said.

        "There are so precious? Some scholar don't believe it. "Well, this Bang benefits can be more, according to cure too much, it not only can breeze cooling, can detoxify the pharynx. It is said that a few decades ago, south of the city, there was a man in pursuit of the old cow farming, the women are really walk, the old man just put it on the farm to eat grass, not for a moment, the spirit of the old cow. The old man is very strange, went to the farm to see, only one Bang of leaf was cows ate up, old man can not consider of overworked, take the shovel dug up a Bang, eating a few mouth, though crude difficult to swallow, but as the SAP into the belly, feel refreshed, energetic, adhere to plow through the field, and then dig Bang eat every day, old man, the results a lot of the old and more. The later news to palace, the palace he arranged people to dig a few please after cure too much, as a tribute tribute to the king. King sick after eating, the body was good to get up gradually, so the state of the quarterly tribute, every year from here Bang became a right special tribute." The girl said. 
 
        Later, because it is discovered by the cattle first, people call it the burdock. (she) 
 
        Author: iraqis
 
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