A good market for Chinese herbal medicines will inevitably trigger a series of reactions. In addition to planting at home, there are many people who run to the mountains at dawn every day with the idea of getting something for nothing, just to pick those natural medicinal materials, which are not only expensive, but also do not need to plant from scratch. So this trend has become quite popular in rural areas recently.
The most popular medicinal material recently is a kind of wild grass called Epimedium. Now the enthusiasm for picking Epimedium may be equivalent to the enthusiasm for digging Cordyceps in Tibet. So what is this epimedium? Why can it be compared with Cordyceps at present? What is its artifact? Let's get to know each other.
What is Epimedium? From the perspective of plants, it is directly called Epimedium, which is also the same name in Chinese medicine. Because there is a word "sheep" on the name, it has something to do with sheep. Of course, in this respect, sheep farmers are the most eliminated. Because they are too sensitive, we won't explain them much. Epimedium is a perennial herb and a short weed. Because it is a basic plant with two or three compound leaves, it is often mistaken for a vine. Actually, it is not. When it is pulled up from the ground, you will find that it is just a plant.
Epimedium is widely distributed in China, mainly in the northwest, and is very common in Shaanxi, Gansu and surrounding provinces. Due to the price increase of Chinese herbal medicines in recent years, the market of Epimedium is also increasing year by year. The value of epimedium mainly lies in medicine. Due to over-exploitation this year, Epimedium resources are becoming less and less, and it has been listed in the endangered level.
Unfortunately, there are not many epimedium plants at present. As far as the whole domestic industry is concerned, there is no place for large-scale planting, and Epimedium resources mainly come from wild mining. From the market in recent years, we can see the shortage of epimedium resources. Judging from these 3-5 years, the market of Epimedium has continued to improve. At present, the market price has exceeded that of 80 yuan by one catty, which is equivalent to the price of many precious Chinese herbal medicines.
In fact, as early as a few years ago, farmers began to plant Epimedium, but in fact, the things they planted were not enough to sell, and the market sought after wild Epimedium, so that many farmers appeared in rural areas looking for it all over the mountains. However, these farmers who went into the mountains to find Epimedium are very familiar with Epimedium. At least know which of the more than 40 kinds of epimedium are valuable and which are not.
It is reported that Epimedium, Epimedium pubescens, Epimedium sagittatum and Epimedium koreanum are the main basic species in People's Republic of China (PRC) Pharmacopoeia (20 15 edition). Experts say that the value of Epimedium is not limited to the value found now, but also has great scientific research value in the future, which may play an important role in more diseases, so Epimedium is a very precious plant. If you meet in the mountains, you must protect it and don't destroy resources at will.