Chapter 19 Talk about Laoshan Ginseng

The author is originally from Changbai, Jilin, and many members of the clan are engaged in harvesting ginseng. The ginseng village in Ertiao, Langfang, Cherry Street, Beiping, is either from the clan or fellow villagers with the same surname and different clans.The so-called Laoshan ginseng is a special product of Changbai Mountain. It is said that the deeper you go into the mountain, the stronger the ginseng will be because of the aura of the water source of the land, the stronger the ginseng will be, and the more powerful the medicinal effect will be. Therefore, the price of wild ginseng is several times higher than that of Korean ginseng.The author's two climbs to Changbai were in cool autumn and September, with heavy fog and heavy frost, and heavy fur that was not warm. Although I climbed the mountain, I didn't dare to go deep.

There is a Changrong Ginseng Shop in Beiping, which is a century-old store. All kinds of ginseng sold by his family are self-harvested, self-carried, self-selected, and self-made. What kind of ginseng is the most suitable for the disease, and customers will never spend more money, so there are many ginseng shops in Beiping, and his business has always been the leader in ginseng antler.My mother is old and afraid of the cold, and suffers from shortness of breath from time to time in mid-winter. The shopkeeper of the Evergreen told me to buy old wild ginseng instead of tea. ', there are three, six or nine grades of ginseng, and they must be finely divided and selected carefully to be regarded as a master of ginseng. A pile of ginseng heads and tails, or ginseng whiskers with mane and mane, if they are trimmed from Laoshan ginseng , Although it doesn’t look good, the medicinal effect is the same as that of Laoshan ginseng.” He always advised his mother not to buy the whole ginseng, but to choose some really good ginseng, which has the same effect, but the price is much cheaper!

Going to the mountains to collect ginseng in Jilin seems to be a profession. If a layman rushes to the mountains to collect ginseng, he will either get lost or freeze to death. It is a blessing among misfortunes to be able to return empty-handed.There are always more than ten people in the group of ginseng collectors in the mountains. Food and drink are certainly prepared, and clothes, shoes and bedding to protect against the cold are not lacking. .Sometimes a branch of ginseng is found, as far as their experienced people can tell at a glance, although the year is old enough, but the Qi veins are not yet connected. After A finds out, he immediately inserts his own special label, a silver wooden plate, bites his middle finger and drips human blood ( Spotting blood with a silver wooden card is said to prevent breaking the ground veins, and the old ginseng is psychic to prevent it from moving), other ginseng collectors will never come to dig it when they see it.No one dares to break this kind of rule, otherwise it will be abandoned by everyone, and it is not allowed to go to the mountains to collect ginseng. If the label has not been changed for more than three years, then let others dig it up.

When Bao Guiqing served as the governor of Heilongjiang, someone gave him a "Shen Wang", which was tied with a red silk thread in a glass brocade basin.Experts say that a hair on the head can be counted as a hundred years old, so that branch of ginseng king is at least three hundred years old.Bao Guiqing dedicated it to the then president as a yearly gift, and later passed it into the hands of Yan Junren (Hui Qing), who was displayed on a piano table in the small study, with chalcedony gelled with fat, as if it contained spiritual energy.Chinese medicine said: "Good wild ginseng can nourish Qi and nourish vitality. If a patient is dying, if he pours a few spoonfuls of thick ginseng soup, it can really prolong his life for several hours. As soon as the patient dies, the body will quickly become cold and stiff. If you drink it Ginseng soup keeps the body warm for a long time. In the early years when the elders in the family died of illness, the descendants bathed and changed clothes for them. Under the circumstances of grief and fear, it was extremely difficult to wear clothes and shoes. It’s hard to get rid of the handle.” Western medicine in the early years took a reserved or distrustful attitude towards the efficacy of ginseng. Recently, some authorities in the American medical field have begun to study how ginseng affects the human body. Although no conclusion has been reached yet, some pharmaceutical experts have already determined that After taking ginseng, there is no doubt that some kind of resistance will occur in the human body.I think that in three to five years, ginseng will be widely adopted by Western medicine like licorice, rhubarb, and ephedra. Let's wait and see!

At that time, a mine policeman named Li Zhongquan in the Rehebei Piao Coal Mine was hit by a stray bullet and passed through his chest. At that time, a mine policeman from Yunnan took out a piece of black and dark thing, bit off half of it, chewed it in his mouth, and applied it on his chest. Li's wound was less than 20 hours away when the wounded was sent to the hospital for treatment, but the bleeding had stopped and the inflammation had subsided, and his life was unharmed.He once showed the half of the medicine to the author. It was black and hard, like dried five-spice tea. It is said that it was produced from the wild mountain black ginseng in Yunnan.The reason why Yunnan Baiyao can stop bleeding and promote muscle growth is that it is mixed with a small amount of black ginseng. There are some Chinese medicinal materials that are of great medical value, but we have not been able to carry them forward.When it comes to ginseng, I also write it out by the way.