Universal Detoxifying Herbs

There are many types of weeds on the ground and in the woods in rural China. They have important functions for us humans. Some can be eaten as wild vegetables, while others have been written into traditional Chinese medicine in ancient times as miracle drugs to treat various diseases for us. They best reflect the wisdom of our ancestors and the spiritual wealth accumulated through personal experiments and inherited by genes.

And many of us see a seemingly insignificant green grass, growing in the mountains, and we don’t even know its name, but it definitely has a miraculous effect, and sometimes even saves lives in critical moments. What I want to introduce to you today is a kind of weed that grows on the mountains in the countryside. Its value is not low. Farmers who know it use it as a commodity. Its name is "black fern" grass.

Black fern grows in moist places under forests or in bushes, at an altitude of 200-1900 meters. It is widely distributed and can be seen in most rural areas of my country, including Zhejiang Province, Fujian Province, Taiwan, southern Anhui Province, Jiangxi Province, Guangxi Province, Hunan Province, Hubei Province, Sichuan, Guizhou Province and Yunnan Province.

In ancient China, there is a myth about Shennong tasting hundreds of herbs, which shows that my country has a long history of using medicinal herbs. The efficacy of black fern was recorded in history more than a thousand years ago. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, its medicinal value and effects: wolfsbane can treat colds and fevers, hepatitis, dysentery, enteritis, centipede bites, diphtheria, sore throat, bleeding cuts, burns, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, fever and colds, coughs, tonsillitis, mumps, enteritis, dysentery, hepatitis, food poisoning, and pesticide poisoning; Chinese medicine can treat burns, scalds, and skin eczema.

Farmers often get injured while working, such as going up the mountain to cut wood. For example, falls, scratches, centipede bites, etc., almost every time after an injury, I almost always see my grandma go to the hillside to find this kind of herbs to apply to the wound. The actual method is to find a handful of herbs and then put them in the mouth to chew and then apply them to the wound. After a while, the pain and inflammation of the wound will be relieved. People in the countryside basically didn't understand why they had to chew with their lips at that time. Now they understand that saliva plus herbs can make the medicine more powerful. Because saliva is a natural body fluid, it can also promote the healing of wounds.

So don’t underestimate the weeds in the countryside, not knowing that they are really valuable. For example, the black fern, people who don’t know it think it is a weed, but people who know it think it is a commodity. So everyone should know more about the weeds in the mountains. Everyone can go to the mountains and inevitably encounter some emergencies. If you know there is such a weed, you will not be at a loss, right! So don't miss it when you see it, get to know it well and remember its main purpose. Good things should be known by a large number of people.