When I was in primary school, my parents were always worried about the hardships of life, and we were teenagers who didn't know the taste of sadness. Every day after school, I either mow the pigs or go to Gangpo to burn thatch. There are always three or five young people wearing uniform and homemade plaid clothes who go to the village to mow the grass. That kind of fun often haunts their dreams. While mowing the grass, our mouths are not idle. We either tell each other stories and gossip, or chew natural foods: black eggplant (Solanum nigrum), sweet and sour jujube, light green onion green leaves, crisp and sweet winter melon. This milk is very tasty.
Speaking of melons, it's our name. Sometimes when guessing riddles with each other, I always like to say this riddle:
An old lady is eighty-three, with thousands of children in her belly.
Every child went with the wind, leaving the old lady to collect.
When we say "convergence", we mean contraction. We all know that the answer is pointed melon, because few children have never eaten it, and they have seen the mature pointed melon with its belly cracked and its seeds floating like small parachutes. We always like to find the ripe top melon and twist our stomachs to blow it away, so that its offspring can live in the world. When I entered high school, I left my hometown and set foot on the wooden bridge of the college entrance examination. I never ate melons again.
When I was in college, Zheng Guangzu once wrote in Song Yuan's "One Yin Geng Xin": Although I am a farmer, I wandered in Beiqiao Nanzhuang. The newly caught water and rice are cold, and half of them are dipped in sauce. Guan Hanqing also said in "Five Hou Banquets": "The autumn harvest has passed, and the Games will welcome God. Banquets are held under the eaves of gourds, and wine is brewed in clay pots. The eggplant is swallowed with skin and the melon belt is slightly swallowed. " Radish dipped in soy sauce, village wine bowl dun. "I don't know if I'm talking about melons or melons in my hometown. I thought at that time that although the ancients were poor, there were abundant wild fruits in nature. This "tiny melon" may be the "top melon" I ate when I was a child.
Years ago, I went to the Taihang Mountain Station in Levin, Hebei Province, and saw the "pointed melon" on the edge of a corridor. However, this pointed melon is not like a fine-leaved plant with a height of 20-40 cm on the ridge. There are many tumor-like protrusions on the surface of its melon, the stems are slender vines, and the leaves are heart-shaped. They said it was a radish. Is the melon I saw a radish, too? Driven by curiosity, I finally found my melon.
Scientific name: goose velvet vine. It is a plant of Asclepiadaceae and Chenopodium. Alias: DiTouHua, DiGourd, Wild Bird Gourd, Geranium Gourd, Split Gourd Gourd, Miss, Horn, Goat Milk Tree, Small Luffa, Shapo, Milk Melon, Grandma Sha, Donkey Nipple, Milk Grass, White Banana, etc. , it seems that the distribution is still very wide. It belongs to an erect semi-shrub, and its underground stems are uni-axial and multi-branched from the base. Leaves opposite or subopposite, linear. Umbrella cymes are axillary, and the calyx is pilose outside. The floret is yellow and white, the fruit is spindle-shaped, green, and the apex is gradually pointed; The seeds are flat and dark brown. The seed hair is as white as silk and 2 cm long. This plant is cold-resistant, drought-resistant and barren-resistant. The flowering period is May-August, and the fruiting period is 8-65438+1October.
This plant grows on hillsides, sand dunes or dry valleys, wasteland, fields and other places at an altitude of 200-2000 meters, and is widely distributed. Its fresh and tender fruit can not only be eaten fresh, but also fried. Stewed soup with pig's trotters can obviously increase milk secretion. Can prevent constipation and lose weight, because sweet potato is a low-calorie food, and is rich in pectin and a lot of dietary fiber. The whole plant contains 1.5% rubber and 3.6% resin, which can be used as industrial raw materials and seed cotton as filler.
Taking off the top melon will cause a lot of white sticky juice to flow out of the wound. People often use it to eliminate boils or treat dermatitis, herpes and skin swelling and pain. Melon is sweet and cool in nature, and can be used as medicine by the whole herb. It is mainly used to treat sore throat, deficiency of both qi and yin, mental fatigue, forgetfulness and fatigue, thirst, dizziness, insomnia, puerperal asthenia and lack of milk.
Sweet potatoes can be used as tea: tender melons are cut into sections, dried and preserved. If necessary, take out three or five tablets and put them into a cup, add a proper amount of rock sugar, and then brew them with boiling water. When it cools down, you can drink delicious sweet potato tea directly. However, it should be noted that excessive use in soaking water will cause a variety of adverse reactions to the body. In severe cases, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and other adverse symptoms will occur, which will seriously endanger human health.
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