Connors' prose became popular in his hometown.

When all the flowers bloom and the leaves fall, the forests in Baotianman Mountain of Funiu Mountain in our hometown are dyed colorful. Some of these areas are dazzling red from a distance, and they can see through pearls and jade and slip into a string. It's dazzling and slippery.

That string is the precious Chinese medicine-Cornus officinalis.

Cornus officinalis, deciduous shrubs, mostly clustered and pier-shaped. The old branches are dark brown and the young branches are green. Leaves opposite, oval. Suitable for warm and humid climate, it has the characteristics of shade resistance, light preference and fear of humidity. The fruit of Cornus officinalis is oval, like jujube, but redder; Like cherry tomatoes, smaller than it; Like cherry, longer than it; Such as peaches and medlar, are fuller. Cornus fruit is bright, watery and fleshy, but it tastes sour. Only its dry skin is used as medicine, and people call it "Cornus officinalis". We locals call Cornus officinalis "Jujube" (Zizyphus jujuba is Zizyphus jujuba, jujube is jujube), Cornus officinalis is called "jujube skin" and Cornus officinalis is called jujube skin tree.

Jujube is a tree with a short dormancy period, which blooms first and then leaves, just like the Spring Festival. As early as the autumn fruit is ripe, the buds have already differentiated and formed, and the cold wind is waiting to open. Every February, when the cold wind is chilly, it quietly opens in the ravine of the deep mountain. The vast and lonely Yamanoue, with its umbrella-shaped delicate yellow flowers, is like the golden hair on the peacock's crown, and it is like stepping on the hair, reporting the news of spring to the world happily.

Jujube bark tree is a small tree and a big shrub. Its crown is wide and full, shaded in summer and swaying. The young fruits are green and round like beans, and the wild interests among the clusters of red branches and green leaves are infinite. There are about 3-7 fruit sets in each cluster, and 5-7 fruit sets are considered as good years. Each tree can pick seventy or eighty kilograms of green dates, more than one hundred kilograms.

In Qiu Lai, the flowers brewed in spring gradually wither, and the yellow leaves that have gone through vicissitudes of life retire with great interest, and a string of dogwood fruits are exposed: small red fruits are like agate glass, crystal clear, and the beads are round and red. From far to near, from near to far, dogwood is more than stars, and strings of red are warmer than the sun; Standing on the mountain after the rain in late autumn, the full and bright fruit of Cornus officinalis is like talking eyes. Encouraged by the rustling autumn wind, it tells the amorous feelings of "the fairy in red" in a blink of an eye; In winter, purple leaves fall, small fruits are red, and red fruits don't hang for a long time, which is in harmony with beautiful snow. Beautiful scenery that contrasts with each other. In the desolate winter field, I feel noble and enchanting!

"Compendium of Materia Medica" contains: "Cornus officinalis is mainly used to treat cold and heat under the heart, warm the middle, dispel cold and warm arthralgia, and remove three worms for a long time; Has the functions of nourishing yin and essence, calming five internal organs, dredging nine orifices and stopping urine leakage; Years of eyesight and strength. " Commonly used for waist and knee pain, dizziness and tinnitus, frequent micturition and enuresis, metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia, irregular menstruation, sweating collapse, and internal heat to quench thirst. Modern research has found that it also has antibacterial and platelet aggregation inhibition effects, which is of positive significance to the rescue of hemorrhagic shock. In recent years, the practice has proved that Liuwei Dihuang Pill is effective in treating diabetes, and the dosage of Cornus officinalis is mostly increased in the prescriptions for treating diabetes.

Because it is widely used in nourishing drugs, it is listed as one of the 40 kinds of raw materials of traditional Chinese medicine. In the era of planned economy, local people often sew "jujube skin" into quilt luggage and sell it out. After the reform and opening up, due to the development of medical care in the motherland, the use of Cornus officinalis has been widely developed, and a variety of Chinese patent medicines have been used as basic drugs. As a result, demand has increased greatly and prices have skyrocketed. Results In 1980s, the "jujube peel" per catty was as high as that of 200 yuan. At that time, there was a joke that a poor man went to a certain house to propose marriage, and it was suspected that his mother-in-law had stopped him: "Do you have a car (bicycle), a watch and a sewing machine?" Man: "No" and asked "Have three tile houses passed the wind ridge?" Man: "No" suspected mother-in-law's face turned black: "Nothing?" Man: "There are more than a dozen jujube trees at home." Suspected mother-in-law immediately looked bright: "The house said it was windy outside!" " Although it was a joke, the preciousness of jujube peel was evident at that time.

At present, there are more than 100 manufacturers producing "Liuwei Dihuang Pills" with Cornus officinalis as raw material. In Liuwei Dihuang Pill, Cornus officinalis accounted for 65,438 06%, Baizhi Dihuang Pill accounted for 65,438 03.7%, Jinkui Shenqi Pill accounted for 65,438 04.83%, and Zuogui Pill accounted for 65,438 00.53%. Zhongjing Dihuang Pill (Wanxi Pharmaceutical) as a "good medicine" is the "jujube skin" produced in Funiu Mountain-Cornus officinalis!

The harvesting of Cornus officinalis requires picking, peeling and drying. Picking, adults and children can pick around the tree, or they can spread plastic sheets under the tree and be shaken in the face; In the past, it was a difficult process to squeeze out the cores one by one, leaving the skins (for the convenience of pinching, cook them in hot water a little) (now it is mostly machine-beaten). It is said that an aunt died in the mountains and cried for three days. People advised him, crying and complaining: "My daughter-in-law pinched dates, but she spit out the nucleus in her hand!" "

"A stranger in a foreign land misses his family on holidays. I know from a distance where my brother climbed, and there is one person missing from the dogwood. " The nickname of Cornus officinalis is "to ward off evil spirits". In the Local Records of the Jin Dynasty and the early Zhou Dynasty, it was recorded that "the Cornus officinalis was blocked on September 9 to ward off evil spirits and prevent the first cold". In the Tang Dynasty, this custom became more popular. People think that inserting Evodia rutaecarpa in the Double Ninth Festival can take refuge and eliminate disasters. Or wear it on your arm, or make a sachet, put Cornus officinalis in it, called Cornus officinalis bag, and some are inserted in your head.

Cornus officinalis in my hometown is very popular. Don't you want to see it? !