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How to process and use the famous "Piangguai Grass" Autumn is the processing season of "Pang Daguai Grass", and the methods are different, depending on the preference of the region and the nation.The method originally taught by Pagano is: remove the leaves and seeds from the stem, soak in stagnant water for five days when the weather is dry and warm, and nine to twelve days when the weather is foggy and cold; Dried in the sun, peeled in the shade, separated into fibers (which, as we have said above, are of value and value), and stripped of the wood, which is of no use here, but is a good kindling material, lit It looks very bright, and it can also be used by children to blow pig urine bubbles.Gluttons can also secretly use it as a straw, sucking fresh wine from the mouth of the barrel.

The few modern workers who process "Gumbago" don't use their hands to do this carding work. They use a carding machine that looks like the angry Juno to prevent Hercules' mother Alcmene from giving birth When ① put up with the same fingers.Through it, useless wooden parts can be removed and fibers can be combed out.However, the processing method is somewhat contrary to the thinking of ordinary people and does not conform to any philosophy. Only those who live back and forth can do it②.Others would like to make it more useful, as they say, the work of the three Pike sisters, the evening entertainment of the noble Circe, and Benelope's time when her husband Ulises was away. , Weaving endlessly with the same invariable excuses⑤ with which she rejects her suitors.Therefore, the uses of this grass are really endless, and I can only say a part (because it is impossible to tell all of them), and I have mentioned the origin of the name of this grass above.

I think the origin of the name of the plant is different, and some come from the name of the person who first discovered, identified, promoted, planted, cultivated and used it①, like "Melguli Grass"② from Marguli, from Esguri "Barnese" from the daughter of Rabius, "Artemis" from Artemis, or Diana, "Erpador" from King Epador. Padol grass"⑥, "Telephus grass"⑧ from Telefus⑦, "Ephrbus grass"⑩ from Ephrbus, the physician of King Juba⑨, from Kerry "Criminus Grass" (12) from Mainus (11), "Alcibiades Grass" from Archipiades (13), from Slavonia (14 ) The king asked Hughes to come to the "Rang Huus Grass" (15) and so on.This custom of attaching one's own name to discovered plants was so prevalent, as was the dispute between Neptune and Pallas over whose name the lands they conquered together should be called,1 see Ovid, p. In Chapter Nine, chapters 297 to 30, I can only see Chapter 17 of Volume 28 of Plinius's "Compendium of Natural History", which says that densely jointed fingers have the power to prevent childbirth.

② Refers to those who beat the rope, their work is done backwards. ③ The three Pike sisters are the gods of destiny. They use the hammer to spin the thread continuously to spin out the destiny of people. ④ Circe: The witch in mythology, who once turned Ulises' partner into a pig so that Ulises would not leave her. See the fourteenth line of the seventh volume of Virgil's "Init" for the story. ⑤ After Ulises left home, Benelope couldn't stand the entanglement of his suitors, so he used the excuse to weave the silk and marry him, but after twenty years of weaving day and night, he finally waited for Ulises to return.

① The following examples are quoted from Book XXV of Plinius' Compendium of Natural History. ② It is the mountain indigo of Euphorbiaceae. ③ Baiyingyao, the herb that is said to cure all diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. ④ Artemis: Greek goddess, equal to Diana in Roman mythology. ⑤ That is moxa. ⑥ That is bluegrass. ⑦ Telephus: Son of Hercules, King of Mycia, was stabbed by Achilles with a gun during the Trojan War. ⑧ Purslane. ⑨ Juba: King of Numidia. ⑩ That is Euphorbiaceae herb. Athens came from Athena, and Athena was Minerva.The same thing happened to Linkeus, king of Cythia, who assassinated the little Triptoremus, who was sent by Cyrus to bring wheat to mankind--when man did not know what wheat was- —I want to call wheat by my own name, and strive for the eternal glory of the food discoverer who is so useful and necessary to human life.But because he murdered, Cyrus turned him into a lynx, or wild cat.In the same way, some ancient kings fought fierce wars in Cappadocia for a long time, and it was also because of this dispute: whose name should a blade of grass be called.As a result, because it caused war, it was finally called polemonia⑤, which means a warlike person⑥.

Some names come from the place of production, such as "Medea lemon" because the earliest lemon was found in Medea, "Punikia pomegranate" came from Punikia (ie Carthage), "Ligurian grass," our lovage grass, comes from Liguria (on the coast of Genoa), and "Rabbari grass," according to Ammianus, comes from a river called La in Barbary. "Santonia", "Greek Fennel", "Castanian Chestnut", "Persian Peach", "Sabinian Juniper"10, and from my "Stetchard Herbs" from the Isles of Eyres (11) - called Stachards in ancient times, and "Celtic Valerian", etc.

Some names come from antinomies and relative terms, such as "absinthe" which is the opposite of pynthe, because the absinthe is bad; there is also holosteon, which means hard as bones, but in fact, on the contrary, there is no plant like this plant ⑤ Softer and softer. Other names come from the performance and efficacy of plants, such as "Anchancao" ⑥ helps women give birth, "Gaodacao" ⑦ cures the skin disease pimples with the same name, "Ruanshucao" ⑧ is soft and soft, "Hair growth grass" ⑨ makes hair beautiful, and there are "anti-bite grass" ⑩, "Gout grass" (11), "Ningsou grass"

(12), "Bitongcao" (13) (that is, "cress"), "Analgesic Grass" (14), "Anti-Spasmodic Grass" (15) and so on. Some names come from the characteristics of the plants themselves, such as "sun-curved plants", such as sunflowers, which follow the sun, open when the sun comes out, straighten when the sun rises, and crooked when the sun is westward. In the past, when the sun went down, its flowers closed; like "water keel plants" (15), even if they were born ① Athena: Greek goddess of thought, daughter of Zeus, equal to Minerva in Roman mythology.

② Triptoremus: In mythology, King Eleusis learned planting skills from Cyrus, invented the plow and hoe, and taught the residents of Attica to farm. ③ For the story, see the lines 642-66 in Chapter 5 of the fifth volume of Ovid. ④ Cappadocia: An ancient country in Asia Minor, west of Armenia. ⑤ A kind of oleander. ⑥ Explanation made by Plinius in the sixth chapter of the twenty-fifth volume of the "Compendium of Natural History". ⑦ Amianus: A historian of the late Roman Empire. ⑧ A kind of capillary produced by Shengdong Nissan. ⑨ Castania: a place name in northeastern Greece.

10 Sabinia: Italian place name, north of Rome. (11) The Aiere Islands are in the Mediterranean Sea, and the author once called himself "the priest of the Aiere Islands". ① Celts: The Germanic nation of Gaul in ancient times. ② A kind of sweet rosin. ③ pynthe comes from the Greek word pinthion, which means "delicious". ④ From the Greek word olostion, meaning "bone". ⑤ A plantain plant. ⑥ Aristolochia. ⑦ That is, comfrey, also known as ground blood. ⑧ mallow plants. ⑨ Water purslane, cures hair loss. ⑩ Cruciferous plants, Plinius said that they can cure mad dog bites, see Chapter 57 of Volume 24 of "Compendium of Natural History".

At the water's edge, even if you soak it in the water for a long time, it will not get wet; in addition, there are "Sharp Eye Grass" ①, "Elephant's Beard Grass" ② and so on. There are also plants that have been changed by men or women, so the names remain the same, like "Dafone". (laurel tree) comes from Daphne ③, "Myrrh" comes from Never La ④, "Pittis" ⑤ comes from Pitis ⑥, and "Kunara" (that is, the shutter dish), "Narcissus"⑦, "Safran" ⑧, "Smirax" ⑨ and so on. There are also names because the plant itself resembles that thing, such as "horsetail grass" (also known as horsetail grass) because it resembles a horse's tail; "foxtail grass" (11) because it resembles a fox's tail; "flea grass" " Because it looks like a flea; "Dolphin grass" (12) because it looks like a dolphin; "Bugloss" (13) because it looks like a cow's tongue; Like a mouse's ear; "blackfoot" because it looks like a crow's claw, and so on. There are also people whose surnames are, on the contrary, derived from plants, as the Fabis from the broad bean, the Bizon from the pea, the Langtuli from the lentil, and the Cicero from the green bean.There are also plant names because of their similar shapes, such as "Beauty's Navel", "Beauty's Hair", "Beauty's Pot", "Jupiter's Beard", "Jupiter's Eyes", "War God's Blood", "Mel Guri". Fingers" (iris flower) and so on. There are also names derived from their growth shape, such as "clover" ④ because of its three-leaf whorl; "five-leaf clover" ⑤ because of its five-leaf whorled; "Human grass" ⑥, "hat grass" ⑦, "sweet oak tree" ⑧, the Arabs call it been ⑨, because its fruit looks like acorn and contains oil. ① Water orchid, the original hieracia means "eagle" according to the Greek, and it is said that eagles eat this grass to benefit their eyes. ② The blade of grass is like a goatee's beard. ③ Daphne: In mythology, the water demon, Apollo wanted to catch her, and she turned into a laurel tree.See Ovid, Book I, lines 452 onwards. ④ Mera: In mythology, the daughter of Kunilas, the king of Cyprus, was banished because she loved her father privately and turned into a myrrh tree.See Ovid Book Ten, line 298 onwards. ⑤ It is the pine tree. ⑥ Pitis: The name of a woman in mythology. Because she loved Boreas and disliked Paine, Paine threw her down the mountain and turned into a pine tree.See Lucian's Dialogue with the Gods. ⑦ Narcissus.The story of Narcissus turning into a narcissus in mythology can be seen from the third and fourth lines of the third chapter of Ovid. ⑧ That is tulip.The story of Safran turning into a tulip in the myth can be found in the second eighth and third lines of Chapter IV of Ovid. ⑨ Poria cocos.For the story of Smilax turning Poria in mythology, see the second eighty-fourth lines of Chapter IV of Ovid. ⑩ is the algae. ① Bizon comes from "bizis" (pea). ② Langtuli comes from "Langtili" (lentils). ③ Cicero comes from "Cisai beans" (green beans). ④ That is alfalfa clover. ⑤ Rosaceae plants. ⑥ The original text of helxine means "attraction" according to the Greek, which means that after the seeds of plants mature, they will stick to the pedestrians and take them away. ⑦ The original word petasites comes from the Greek word petasos, which means "hat" and takes its leaf shape. ⑧ The original text myrobalans is synthesized from the Greek words "sweet" and "oak seed". ⑨ been or ben, Arabic word, that is, Jianqiuluo.