Interesting story of Chinese herbal medicine plant

2015/10/7

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TCM medicines small story - nine resurrection plant death

Legend in the kunlun mountains, there was a glittering tianchi, it's heavenly queen bathing place. In tianchi shore, grows a bone, the bone can back from the dead.

One year folk drought, plague, tens of thousands of people died. Lived in dragon lady in the tianchi, see into the disaster, is sympathetic, the immortality of the tianchi shore secretly life for the people to heal, to save all beings, tens of thousands of dead people back to life, the dragon king knows this matter, furious, anger, bringing down the dragon lady.

Dragon lady to the human, is willing to become a resurrection plant, save all beings. Resurrection plant vitality is strong, after air into the water again to grow, so the resurrection plant.

In remote vastness of cliffs, the dry crack in the rock, grows a can cure injuries of precious medicinal materials, called "resurrection plant". Its vitality is strong, after air into the water again to grow, so the resurrection plant. This plant is very strange, drought, and its branches and leaves curled up, plants become parched, entered into a state of suspended animation, when get the rain, temperature is appropriate, it is a large amount of water absorption, branches and leaves stretch, "wake up" again. Stone-faced Banks because of the drought is difficult to keep moisture, it passes through many times of "water" and "resurrection" can grow up and reproduce, so called "nine die resurrection plant". Low it grows in the Rocky Mountains, sharp edges and corners, such as stone point, even the tenacious vitality moss are difficult to grow. Naturally, if you want to pick it, is also very not easy.

Nine dead resurrection plant named selaginella, also known as grass evergreen, immortality, is a kind of perennial erect herb ferns, 5 ~ l5 cm high, the top of the cluster twig, branchlets fan-shaped bifurcate, radiation, flat, light green, when volume like boxing (our local called "iron fist"), stem brown. Is a roll of cupressaceae selaginella is a perennial herbaceous flower. Leaf oblique upward, not equal, oblong, oval with micro teeth on edge. Sporangium spike on apex of branches, four prismatic, cotyledon triangle, oval, kidney-shaped ascus circle. Xi, born in an altitude of 800 meters of rock joints, distributed in a small number of provinces and autonomous regions in our country. Resurrection plant as indoor miniature bonsai, the four seasons evergreen, like mountain hill, has a very high ornamental value.

Selaginella is blindly anti-inflammatory hemostatic, commonly used to treat hemoptysis, vomiting blood, stool, rectocele, menorrhagia, uterine bleeding, amenorrhea, rheumatic pain, injuries, trauma, hemorrhage, cold, nosebleed, flooding and other diseases. In selaginella powder coated on baby umbilical belly anti-inflammatory hemostasia, the effect is very good. Selaginella have hairdressing effect. Volume phase powder and eggs QingDiao and apply to the face, can make facial bright and beautiful. Selaginella take orally, have the effect of the strong Yin yi jing. Is the magic of Chinese herbal medicine trauma hemorrhage, the original landscape plants, and can be ornamental and medicinal, is difficult to find immortal herbs, guarantee covered after planting survival rate 100%.

Can be seen from the different name of selaginella compendium of material medica called back to Yang dian south grass, it calls immortality is not grass compendium of materia medica, "classification herbs" call it resurrection plant "modern practical medicine" call it nine dead resurrection plant "jiang Chinese medicine manual" call it see return water grass. Selaginella how to nine dead line, immortal? Dried plants will survive! Deadwood on the water will sprout! As long as the resurrection plant dried after invading the water covered cultivation, will come back to life, resurrection plant is so magical.

Such as cultivation in the basin, it is a very good miniascape of selaginella tamariscina! Used in the rockery, large bonsai cultivation ornament, can greatly increase the ornamental value. In your home, it is your life joys and sorrows of life! Is good to send gift, because it is the symbol of happiness as immense as the Eastern Sea/live as long as the southern mountain!

Selaginella does have a strong drought resistance ability, Japan a biologists have found that specimens made of selaginella plants, after 11 years, dip it in the water, it was "resurrection" resurrection, back to life.

American selaginella more strange, they can shrink into a ball when drought, rolling with the wind, where there is water, then grow stretch, shortage of water and began to travel, so also known as "travel" plants.