In the countryside, there are many plants that are wild but grow well. I know of one plant that doesn't grow very tall, but produces a fruit that is very beautiful. When it bears fruit, it looks like a dragon with beads in its mouth, so the local people call it "dragon bead".
This is a common wild fruit in the countryside, but few people will eat it, because some old people will remind the children when they are small that this fruit can not be eaten and poisonous. As a matter of fact, there is no poison in the dragon's beads, but why do old people tell people they are poisonous and can't be eaten? This may have something to do with its other name. Because the fruit of this plant is very similar to a small strawberry, it is also called a small strawberry in some places, but at the same time it is more commonly known as a snakeberry.
Because snakes are poisonous, they believe that this wild fruit with the word snake is also poisonous. In addition, they believe that snakes eat this plant. In addition, adults may think the plant grows low and basically crawls on the ground. Snakes, insects, and ants can easily crawl up from it and believe it is unclean and easily contaminated. Others say snakes are poisonous because they spit on it. All of these claims are unscientific. First of all, snakes do not eat this snakeberry. Even though it is called a snakeberry, snakes are not going to eat it. We all know snakes don't even spit on it.
They all say they can't eat the dragon's title, but when I was a kid, rural kids were playful and deliberately showed enough courage. Some children also tried boldly and ate some in front of other children, but there was no problem. This fruit tasted sweet and sour. I researched ancient medicine and proved that this plant is non-toxic and is an herbal medicine with high medicinal value.
Snakeberry is sweet and bitter in flavor and cold in nature. It mainly has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, reducing swelling and detoxifying. Snakeberry can be used for fever, convulsions, cough, vomiting blood, sore throat, dysentery, carbuncle, boils, poisonous snake bites and so on. Snakeberries are precious and valuable, the whole plant can be used as a remedy for ailments, and no book has ever found the Dragon's Bit to be poisonous, and brave children have been known to try to eat them. However, snakeberries grow too low and can become contaminated. Nevertheless, the snakeberry is now a rare species and herbicides are used on most farmland in rural areas. The plant, which is drug-intolerant and poorly tolerant, has been virtually wiped out and is found only in some mountainous areas far from farmland.
Snakeberry effect and role
Snakeberry taste sweet, bitter, cold, is a wild plant, the body red colorful fruit is very eye-catching, and we usually eat strawberries are very similar, then this red colorful fruit in the end what is the efficacy of it?
1, clear heat and cool blood
Snakeberry has the efficacy of clearing heat and disinfection, can treat fever, folk people use it to treat fire.
2, swelling and cough
Snakeberry is cold, so when the throat is swollen and sore, you can use snakeberry to reduce swelling and eliminate cough and other throat discomfort.
3, treatment of snake bites
This is also the origin of the name of the snake berry, snake and insect bites can be treated with snake berries, but it is believed that this effect is also related to the reduction of swelling and disinfection.
4, the treatment of fire injury bruises ...
Snakeberry has a lot of efficacy, can be used as a medicinal plant, can also be used as agricultural plants, its fruit can also be eaten, but can not eat more. Also, it contains some toxicity. As for those who can't eat it, I'm not sure. Those who don't have a clear mind had better not eat it.
Snakeberry flowers.
Snakeberry is a plant of the genus Snakeberry in the Rosaceae family, it is a perennial creeping herb. Its rhizome is short and thick, with a majority of stolons. Its flowers are solitary in the leaf axils; yellow petals obovate; bright red receptacle expanded in fruit, spongy, shiny. Flowering period June-August, fruiting period August-October. It looks very much like strawberry, so some local people also call it "wild strawberry". It likes to grow in wet places with a lot of water, such as the edge of the ditch and the lawn. It is widely distributed throughout the country.
The fruit of the snakeberry. The reddish heap is actually its receptacle, and the small grains on top are its fruit.
The receptacle of the snakeberry is edible, with a mildly sweet flavor, but not too much. Its entire plant can be used for medicinal purposes, "Chinese Botanical Journal" records: "can dissipate blood stasis and swelling, astringent bleeding, clearing heat and detoxification. Stem and leaves pounded compresses for the treatment of sores have special effects, can also be applied to snake bites, burns, burns. Fruit decoction can cure bronchitis." . However, it must be remembered: these records are just records, do not take it as a prescription. For example, if you have bronchitis, the best thing to do is to go to the hospital and see a doctor, not to follow this record and take the decoction of the fruit of the snakeberry and then not go to the doctor. That's a very dangerous thing to do. If you get sick, you should always go to a doctor and follow medical advice. The watery infusion of the whole snakeberry also controls agricultural pests, kills maggots and tsetse.
Snakeberry is a wild fruit that is found in almost most parts of the country. It looks a bit like a strawberry, so some regions call it "wild strawberry", or "false strawberry", Guangdong is called "dragon spit pearl".
But more often called snakeberry, why? Because the old man said it is a snake eating food, so it is called "snakeberry". In fact, there is no relevant information recorded with the snake to eat snakeberry, just people's guess and their own. This has led to many people believe that you can not eat, for fear of poisoning. Is it true? Chinese medicine believes that the snakeberry fruit has a certain medicinal value.
Snakeberry not only in the country, Japan, India, and Europe also have, but few people eat abroad, basically take it as a weed. It is said to be because the snakeberry has a small poison, but there has not been a case of poisoning, in the clinical trial report, 48 volunteers ate the snakeberry fruit, only one case of mild abdominal pain, do not rule out that it is due to other reasons.
Snakeberry is relatively valued in the country, from ancient times there are records. Chinese medicine believes that the snakeberry can be used as medicine, the whole plant has medicinal value, usually sun-dried product decoction water to take, is a flavor of heat detoxification, cool the blood to stop bleeding, blood circulation and dissipate blood stasis of the Chinese herbal medicine.
In the "Shanxi Herbal Medicine" recorded: snakeberry cold taste bitter, sweet, can cure cold fever and cough, with its fresh, portion of 30 to 60 grams, decoction water to drink.
About a dozen books of traditional Chinese medicine have related records, such as "Zhejiang Folk Herbs" said it can treat enteritis, dysentery (diarrhea). The whole grass of the snakeberry is used, and 30 grams of the fresh product is decocted in water, or 15 grams of the dried product is decocted in water.
It is recorded that snakeberry can also treat: fever, eye also, menstrual disorders, minor burns, bruises and swelling.
Modern medicine uses snakeberry extracts to treat diphtheria and chronic pharyngitis, with some efficacy.
Caution is advised, and it is best to consult a doctor on how to use it? It would be wise to know how much is the right amount to use.
Cure toothache. Wash it clean, put it into the diseased tooth area, teeth bite a few times, the effect is excellent. Note that insect teeth are not effective.
Eat snakeberries, clearing heat and detoxification.
I've been eating it for 50 years, and it tastes good.
Clearing heat, cooling the blood, swelling, detoxification, cough
How much do I need here, all over the mountain
When I was a kid, I often ate very sweet
This is called earth strawberry