163. Imperata Root

Author: Yueshangyunwai

163. Imperata Root

Shen Suhong shook her head helplessly. As soon as she heard the medicinal materials, her brain turned into a ball of mush: "I don't understand these, I will do whatever you tell me."

Shen Ruoxi smiled: "You have done a good job."

Shen Suhong took the backpack and carried it on her own: "From now on, you will be my lady, and I will be your maid. I will take care of all the trivial matters."

Shen Ruoxi patted Shen Suhong on the shoulder: "We have always been good sisters."

Shen Suhong smiled slowly: "Ruoxi, you are so kind to me."

The two of them were talking and came to the door of Doctor Barefoot's house. Shen Ruoxi took out a bag of things from her backpack and asked Shen Suhong to wait for her outside. She walked into the yard alone: ​​"Grandpa."

"I'm here." The barefoot doctor's voice came from the medicine room.

Shen Ruoxi walked over quickly: "Grandpa, I brought you some food, you can try it."

The barefoot doctor packed up the medicinal materials and said with a smile: "No reward for no merit, I can't take your things."

Shen Ruoxi said sincerely: "Grandpa is out of touch now. As a junior, I should give you some food. There is no need to distinguish it so clearly."

The barefoot doctor turned back to look at Shen Ruoxi and said with a smile: "Then I'll accept it."

Shen Ruoxi handed the oiled paper bag to the barefoot doctor: "Grandpa, I want to go up the mountain to collect herbs, do you want to go?"

The barefoot doctor took the things and put them into the empty dustpan aside, and replied: "I was just about to go. In that case, let's go together."

Shen Ruoxi said: "Then I'll wait for you at the gate."

The barefoot doctor nodded: "Okay."

Shen Suhong saw Shen Ruoxi coming out and went to greet her: "Ruoxi, are you leaving?"

"Grandpa is also going to collect herbs. Let's wait for him." Shen Ruoxi looked back and said to Shen Suhong.

"Yeah." Shen Suhong said.

After waiting for a while, the barefoot doctor came out of the room, accompanied by Shen Yan.

Shen Yan glanced at Shen Ruoxi gratefully. After taking the medicine Shen Ruoxi prescribed for her, her stomach no longer hurts and she felt very comfortable.

Shen Ruoxi nodded to Shen Yan, and then walked up the mountain first.

The mountains have lush vegetation and weeds, and the necessary herbs grow in the weeds. Now that we have entered the early summer season, the weeds are luxuriant and the herbs are even harder to find.

A group of people lined up and walked into the mountains. Shen Ruoxi walked in the front, followed by Shen Suhong, followed by Doctor Shen, and finally Shen Yan.

The four of them were all carrying baskets on their backs, and they looked like they were collecting herbs in the mountains.

The mountain we first walked into was relatively flat, with not many trees and mostly waist-high weeds. These weeds were green and could be cut down for firewood. They looked pretty good now.

"Ruoxi, look ahead, there is such a big field of reeds." Shen Suhong pointed ahead, with excitement in her expression as she had for the first time.

As Shen Ruoxi walked towards the reeds, she asked, "Grandpa, I'm going to dig some fresh reed roots. Do you want to dig them?"

The barefoot doctor nodded: "You have to dig it. Reed root clears away heat and promotes body fluids, relieves annoyance, relieves vomiting, and is a diuretic. It has excellent effects on polydipsia due to fever, vomiting due to stomach heat, cough due to lung heat, vomiting pus due to lung abscess, and astringent pain caused by hot stranguria." "

Shen Ruoxi answered: "Reed root is often combined with mulberry leaves, chrysanthemums, platycodon and other medicines to dispel wind and clear away heat, soothe the lungs and relieve cough. The prescription is as shown in the "Sangju Drink" in "Febrile Disease Treatise".

The barefoot doctor secretly praised: "Fresh reed roots are refreshing and can treat wind-heat coughs. They are more powerful than dried reed roots, so you don't need to collect so much."

Shen Ruoxi added: "Grandpa, reed root mixed with mint and cicada can dispel wind and clear away heat, dispel toxins and penetrate the rash. It can be used to treat the early stage of measles in children when the rash is not smooth."

The barefoot doctor smiled humbly: "I don't know about this, but I wrote it down so I can give it a try next time I meet."

Shen Ruoxi glanced sideways at the barefoot doctor's expression, and saw that there was nothing unusual about the latter, so she felt relieved: "Grandpa, sit down and rest. We are young and energetic, let's dig."

"Then the uncle is lazy." The barefoot doctor smiled and did not argue with the others. He found a rock and sat down to watch the others digging.

The three girls put down their backpacks, took out their little hoes, walked to the reeds, cut the reeds in pieces, and then dug out their roots.

The place where reeds grow usually has a lot of water, and the roots can be dug up easily. After a while, Shen Ruoxi dug up the roots of two reeds.

Shen Suhong said: "Ruoxi, our hospital uses a lot of medicine, so we can dig out more."

Shen Ruoxi agreed: "Yes, but digging four or five kilograms is enough. We will dig again when we have used up."

Shen Suhong nodded: "Okay."

After listening to what the two said, Shen Yan hesitated and asked, "Ruoxi, is the business of the drug store good?"

Shen Ruoxi was afraid that people would be jealous, so she picked up the slack and said, "It's just average, not really good. After all, everyone doesn't really recognize me."

Shen Suhong wanted to argue, but when she opened her mouth, she understood what Shen Ruoxi meant, so she echoed: "That is, when those patients saw that Ruoxi was a girl, they were disgusted. Many of them sat down or left. Already."

Shen Yan was a little disbelieving and said, "But didn't someone come to the village to invite you last night?"

Shen Suhong waved her hand and said helplessly: "That was also introduced by an acquaintance, and most people still don't recognize it."

Shen Yan nodded and said nothing more.

Shen Suhong blinked at Shen Ruoxi to see if I would react quickly.

Shen Ruoxi smiled at her.

The reed root is long cylindrical or flat cylindrical, varying in length, with a yellow-white surface, shiny, and a pointed tip shaped like a bamboo shoot, green or yellow-green, odorless, and sweet in taste.

Shen Suhong was digging, and suddenly asked: "Ruoxi, can this be eaten?"

Shen Ruoxi answered her while digging: "Okay, it's still sweet and has no weird taste. You can try it."

Shen Suhong took a real taste: "It is indeed sweet. If there is a famine, this reed root will probably bear the brunt and become everyone's ration."

Shen Ruoxi said: "Don't expect bad things to happen, it's better to use this thing as medicine."

Shen Suhong pouted twice and said quickly: "That's what you said."

The three of them dug up more than ten kilograms of reed roots here, rolled them into balls, wrapped them with reed leaves, and put them in the reeds. They would come back to pick them up later.

The four of them continued to go into the mountains.

The barefoot doctor looked ahead and suddenly said: "dig some cogongrass roots back, Ruoxi, do you want them?"

Shen Ruoxi nodded: "Yes, I'm ready to dig too."

Because its leaves are shaped like spears, people call it "spear". Its flowers and roots are white, so it is called "Imperata root".

The buds, flowers and roots of Imperata cognac have high medicinal value, especially the roots are used to treat various types of hemorrhage.

Imperata cogongrass root is commonly used as a medicine and food in folk soups in spring and summer. It is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the lungs, stomach, and small intestine meridians. It is a diuretic and dampness substance. It has the effects of cooling blood, clearing heat, and diuresis.
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