Seeing this sentence, I broke out in a cold sweat. It's really that my friends and I are shocked!
Because my friends and I are young and ignorant, we don't know how many castor beans we ate, so it's not easy to live until now.
Things should start with a folk prescription without a source.
I don't know where and when I heard that castor seeds can cure cough. Just pick castor seeds and bake cooked food on the fire. (Rumors, please don't follow the trend) But there was no trace of castor near our village at that time. I don't know who sent the news. Only "North Kiln" grows castor.
"North Kiln" was a mysterious existence for us at that time. That is a broken kiln factory that has been abandoned for a long time. It's about one kilometer north of our village. It must cross a road. The "North Kiln" is surrounded by water, and only a narrow dirt road leads to the kiln factory in the middle of the pond.
Dad told me that the kiln factory had bad feng shui, people died, and then it closed down. Adults may be worried about the danger of children crossing the road and being near the pond, so they make up all kinds of horrible reasons to scare us, saying that there are dead children in the "North Kiln" and they are often haunted. How can children stand this? Naturally, I am afraid to avoid the "North Kiln".
But every August and September, when castor beans are ripe, a group of leather children can't hold each other's courage and encouragement, and often team up to "explore treasures." In retrospect, it may be psychological. Although it is daytime, it still feels gloomy there.
Several castor plants grow on the ruins of the kiln factory. For us, whose average height is only a little more than one meter, several castor plants are very tall, estimated to be two meters high. Everyone hurriedly picked some castor seeds at random, but they didn't care if the hedgehog-like shell pierced their hands, and then they ran away, but they didn't have time to cry at the back, but they didn't dare to shout.
Take the castor beans home. Peel off the soft-prickled capsule, which contains some smooth seeds. Castor seeds are oval, slightly flatter and thinner than soybeans. Gray-brown markings, smooth surface.
That thing which is rare is dear. For us Xiong Haizi, these castor beans are treasures. After drying, wrap it in paper and put it in a drawer for collection. One day when I caught a cold and coughed, I took a few pills with great regret, baked them on a candle and chewed them carefully in my mouth. We must not waste this delicious food. Although I don't remember its taste, I only remember the feeling of frying and the way I pretended to be intoxicated.
Fortunately, this so-called folk prescription is to eat castor beans. The toxic components of castor bean are ricin and ricinine. It destroys its chemical composition after heating and is non-toxic. Fortunately, our friend was more cautious, so he baked it according to the folk prescription. ...
Funny, once my mother caught a cold, and I gave some roasted castor beans as a gift! This folk prescription seems a bit powerful!
Folk remedies are "folk remedies" after all, even if they are used. You'd better show it to the doctor first.
But castor bean is really a good thing, and it is cultivated in most parts of the country. It has the effects of detumescence, detoxification, diarrhea, stagnation, dredging collaterals and resuscitation. Indications: carbuncle, carbuncle, breast carbuncle, laryngitis, scabies, ringworm, scald, edema, dry stool, mouth and eyes askew, traumatic injury, etc.
When I went back to my hometown last year, I saw several plants in front of an uncle's house. I can't help thinking that it may be the offspring of the seeds we brought back from the kiln factory, but I still have the urge to pick them. If you haven't found a mature one after a long time, you won't play tricks and keep the quality.
I didn't observe it when I was a child, and I didn't have the courage to observe it in the kiln factory. I pretended to study for a long time in the hot sun that day. Several palm-shaped broad leaves with a height of more than 1 m have produced a string of green spherical fruits with green spines, which should have just grown.
I hope Xiong Haizi doesn't spread the folk prescription of eating castor beans! Whether it works or not!
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