Pu 'er is a pearl of green sea embedded in the southwest border of the motherland, and it is a large city, an ecological city, a resource city, a border city, a national city and a cultural city "south of colorful clouds".

This is a huge oasis in the Tropic of Cancer, with the highest climate comfort index, the richest biodiversity, the best air cleanliness and the most suitable for human habitation in China and even the world.

The forest coverage rate here is 68.7%, and there are 16 nature reserves, with an excellent air quality rate of 1%. The highest concentration of negative oxygen ions in the air in the central city is more than 12,5 per cubic centimeter, which is more than 8 times higher than the standard of "fresh air" stipulated by the World Health Organization, and is called "the paradise of the world, the world of paradise" by the United Nations Environment Programme.

In addition to many original foods, Pu 'er is sought after by people, and the medicinal root festival during the Dragon Boat Festival is unique.

have you heard of it? Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, while Pu 'er not only eats zongzi, but also cooks herbal roots.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, the rain falls on the ground, and the weather is hot, so people are very prone to get sick, eat glutinous food, and it is not easy to digest, and stomach discomfort often occurs. We call it "changing intestines and stomachs during the Dragon Boat Festival in May".

The original name of Pu 'er is Simao, which was a place of ruin in history. People who came here to do business before liberation should buy coffins in advance to prevent accidents, so that someone can help them collect them in case they die. The population here has risen and fallen again and again because of the plague.

for this reason, besides drinking tea to prevent diseases, the people have a good way to fight the disease. People have no money to treat diseases, so they have found many herbs to prevent and treat diseases. The world is fair, Zhuangzi said: There is nothing useless in the world.

"I was born to be useful". There is a disease in the world, and someone will find a medicine to cure it. Now the incurable disease just hasn't found a suitable medicine yet. Wasn't typhoid fever and tuberculosis conquered one by one in the past?

Pu 'er is a place where "you can sit down with three medicines". It is the "genetic treasure house of biological germplasm" and the "royal palace" of "Yunnan Animal and Plant Kingdom".

Pu 'er is the origin of Pu 'er tea and the starting point of the "Southern Silk Road"-the ancient tea-horse road. From here, Pu 'er tea goes out of the mountains, to Beijing and to the world. It was the caravan that carried tea and let the world know Pu 'er tea.

tea is a very beneficial drink for people. If nothing else, people with high blood lipids can drink more Pu 'er tea, and the tea polyphenols contained in tea have obvious effects on lowering blood lipids.

But I'm trying to tell you some dietotherapy herbs I've eaten: boiled pork belly with Bainuoxiao can cure stomachache and gastritis; Qilixiang can raise the temperature to make up; Little red garlic can promote blood circulation and dredge menstruation, as well as burdock root, which can dispel wind and dissipate heat, reduce swelling and detoxify and reduce three highs.

some common herbs are listed in the following categories:

1. invigorating qi and blood

codonopsis pilosula, fennel root, small white incense (also known as manshanxiang), cock fruit (invigorating qi), angelica sinensis (invigorating qi and blood, dredging tendons and collaterals), red ginseng, vegetable angelica sinensis (invigorating qi and blood) and wild yam (invigorating middle energizer and invigorating qi).

2. Jianwei Xiaoshi

Hongyan Qi, Yanqi (anti-inflammatory, can be used to treat stomachache), horseshoe incense, white branch of mountain, and Acorus gramineus (digestion, stomach strengthening).

3. diminish inflammation, relieve sore throat and relieve cough

wild burdock root, pink fruit root (anti-inflammatory), wild chicken thorn root, Paris polyphylla (anti-inflammatory, detoxifying), dandelion (anti-inflammatory, relieving sore throat), Dendrobium (relieving sore throat and improving immunity), Asparagus (moistening lung, clearing heart, relieving cough and tonifying qi and blood) and Ophiopogon japonicus root (moistening lung, clearing heart, nourishing blood).

4. Detoxification and dehumidification

Banshulong (dehumidification, detoxification), Dabaijie, Hongbai Jiedu (detoxification), Cinnamon bark (also known as spicy bark) and rattan (divergence and dehumidification).

5. Other

gold (also called horsetail root, tonifying kidney), ox rhinoceros (nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening bones and muscles), Polygonum multiflorum Thunb (also called flower root of small flower, benefiting kidney and blackening hair)

Hui Xin Cao (treating heart disease). Heiweiling (dispersing, treating cold), Rambutan root (promoting blood circulation, expelling wind).

There are many kinds of herbal roots with different functions, which can cure and prevent diseases, soothe the nerves, ventilate and moisten the lungs, and also dispel wind and remove dampness. As the raw material of dietotherapy, we mainly use it to cook pig bones, chicken and bacon. If you want to taste it, you can go to Pu 'er to attend the Medicine Root Festival.

The herbal roots of the Dragon Boat Festival are mainly dietotherapy, and the emphasis is on disease prevention. It is impossible to eliminate all diseases at once. It is necessary to treat the disease with the right medicine, persevere and eat it often to have better results.

I would like to remind friends who like to take medicine root. If they don't know the medicinal properties, they can attend the long-street banquet of the food festival. If they cook it themselves, just choose a few kinds of cooking that they like.

Legend has it that the plague at that time was solved by Zhuge Liang grabbing a handful of herbs and cooking a cauldron of medicine for the people. People "would rather believe it, but not believe it".

In the past, people who lived here for generations were short of medicine, and it was really an effective measure summarized by local people for many years to deal with the plague.