All creatures in nature, the war in nature, cruel, bloody and murderous! In addition to sharp teeth and claws, there are biological warfare and chemical weapons; Come and go, kill to kill; You beat me, I beat you, everything has its vanquisher, and everything is changing. It's amazing!
between predator and prey, it is a life-and-death struggle. You have sharp teeth and claws, and I have hard armor; You opened your mouth and bit hard, and I kicked it fiercely; You have your banquet and I have my tricks up my sleeve. You have a strange disease, I have a panacea. You have a poisonous needle, and I have a clever solution. You have evil influence abuse, I have stolen fairy grass!
Let's talk about two scary poison bee!
wasp, it's called Yellow jacket yellow jacket, native bee, and it's called Black jacket black jacket. These two kinds of bees love to sting people, especially this black jacket, which is more fierce than the yellow jacket! Bee venom is a biochemical weapon. After being shot, the pain is unbearable, especially those who are allergic to bee venom, which can cause excessive reaction of the body and is very dangerous. Although bee venom is so powerful, it is also a good medicine for treating diseases. It depends on how to use it.
The attack of the bumblebee-the black jacket is fierce and the grass is stolen.
Once climbing a mountain, in central Washington State, there is a beautiful alpine lake, which is more than ten kilometers long. The clear blue lake, the towering mountains around it, the green and tall forests and the white clouds set off the blue sky give people a vast, majestic, fresh and lively feeling. It's a fairyland for mountain climbing and sightseeing!
on that day, I made an appointment with my companions to come to this lake early in the morning, wading through the rapids of the stream, along the steep hillside of the lake, along the winding forest path, climbing vines and attaching pueraria, and walking along the lake.
Suddenly, in a narrow mountain pass, a cloud of black smoke billowed from several fallen trees, tumbling and spinning, and came straight to our mountaineering team-ouch! Attacked by a bee! That's a swarm of bees, coming straight, flying like a bullet, without turning. They all attack the same place! It turns out that the first poison bee attack marked the impact point (with a special smell), and other subsequent attacks all targeted at this point. Just like artillery shooting, the first shot is an indicator bullet, indicating the position, and the subsequent attack-volley! Suddenly, in the team, there was a big strong man who was shot several times in a row. The pain is unbearable, that is, screaming and sweating. Some emergencies, especially those allergic to bee venom, are very dangerous. This place is remote, and the phone has no signal! What can I do? What a hurry!
when I was in a hurry, I fumbled in my pockets with my hands all over my body. Suddenly, I found some herbs from my coat pocket, and I had a brainwave. I smeared them on several places, and in an instant, it didn't hurt! The swelling has gone down, and it looks less terrible. Sweating has stopped! The heartbeat is normal! What luck! This magical herb is wormwood! This wormwood is really good! After that, whenever I went hiking, my coat pocket was always filled with wormwood with pleasant fragrance. Later, once, walking alone in the mountains, I was attacked by a group of black mandarin jackets, and I was shot several times in the leg-it's really harsh and lonely, and God doesn't love poor people! Fortunately, the fairy grass was rescued, and the grass was cured, and the pain and itching were relieved. I moved on and drilled out of this deep forest. Otherwise, it's not painful to roll around, alas, I can't eat, I can't sleep well, and I have been suffering for several days.
magical Wormwood
wormwood, also known as Artemisia absinthium, is commonly known as wormwood. There is a strange smell, refreshing! Early Europeans used it to expel parasites and tapeworms from their bodies. Hence the name Wormwood. It is a wild perennial herb with erect stems and 3-3 feet high. The leaves are tricuspid, nearly gray-green, with fine villi. When twisted and pressed by hand, the oil precipitates and has a strong smell.
wormwood is widely distributed in Europe and Asia. Wormwood in North America is said to have come from Europe and Asia. It has become wild in many States in North America. I have some doubts about this, because I climbed to the deepest valley gorge, and I can see it in deserted and uninhabited places.
In China, it has been used for acupuncture since ancient times. The moxa roll of acupuncture is made of wormwood. Moxibustion has many functions, such as warming and dispelling cold, and harmonizing qi and blood. Invigorate deficiency, strengthen the foundation, and restore yang to strengthen the body. Promote qi and blood circulation, reduce swelling and dissipate stagnation. Strengthening body resistance, expelling evil spirits and protecting health.
Moxibustion lighting, fumigation degree, combined with acupuncture, has magical effect! But later, many people were afraid of trouble and secretly canceled the moxibustion step. Acupuncture, acupuncture, only needles, no moxibustion, what is acupuncture?
In the west, acupuncture is becoming more and more popular, which has a bright future, but it is said that there are some troubles. Ai Juan lit up a little, the smoke filled the air, and the aroma filled the room. Upstairs and downstairs, the neighbors around, came knocking at the door: Oh! Are you smoking marijuana? No way, no matter how good, I have to give up this baby!
People have some customs that cannot be separated from wormwood. Tomb-Sweeping Day, eat the green ball, and there is wormwood in the rice ball. Every household hangs a bunch of wormwood on the door to ward off evil spirits. Coincidentally, North American Indians have a similar custom-putting wormwood balls at the door and entrance is said to drive away those evil influence ghosts!
thousands of years of human development have traces of wormwood. The earliest record is about the medical application of wormwood in ancient Egypt in 15 BC. Pythagoras, an ancient Greek philosopher, and Hippocrates, a famous doctor in ancient Greece, both suggested the wide application of wormwood in medicine. Even in the Bible, wormwood is mentioned.
wormwood has been used as a herbal medicine in Europe, Asia and North Africa since ancient times to treat various diseases:
gastrointestinal discomfort, indigestion and loss of appetite. It is also used to treat various discomforts such as listlessness, depression, mental deficiency, muscle pain, etc. It is said that it is used to treat intractable enteritis, Crohn's disease and IgA nephropathy. People use wormwood to wipe the skin, treat arthritis, poisonous insect bites, reduce swelling and relieve pain.
In ancient Europe, wormwood was traditionally used to repel insects, especially parasites such as tapeworms, which is why wormwood was named wormwood.
In daily industrial products, such as soaps, cosmetics and spices, wormwood is also an important additive. No wonder some soaps smell of wormwood!
It is said, or it is said, that it can stimulate the central nervous system, cheer up emotions and increase imagination! Ha ha! It's getting better and better!
absinthe, a famous wine
At the end of 18th century, Europeans used wormwood to make wine, and wormwood oil, together with anise and fennel, was emerald in color. It tastes extremely bitter. This is the famous absinthe. Later, it was widely popular in Europe. Many celebrities love to drink, but as for binge drinking. There are many artists who love absinthe, such as Toulouse-Lautrec and van Gogh, Edgar Degas of Edgar Degas, Manet, Picasso and Hemingway. . .
Van Gogh, a famous French painter, is a great genius. He is not satisfied all his life, and sometimes he is poor and depressed. He loves to drink absinthe, and when he is drunk, he inspires his thoughts, arouses whimsy and paints well! Why not be so famous! Just like in the water margin, Wu Song got drunk and beat Jiang Menshen, and got drunk, so it was easy to start! Absinthe, which used to deal with depression, refreshed me, opened my brain and had a strong appetite! make you high! In the past, absinthe was quite popular in Europe. Germans have a saying that a mouthful of wine and a mouthful of rice. Even Shakespeare's shakespeare drama, Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet, has a story of wormwood!
after some years of fanaticism, many people died of drinking, and some people blamed absinthe. It was found that thujone, a cacumen in wormwood, had an exciting effect, but it was toxic and caused convulsions in large quantities. For a time, absinthe became a thousand fingers, and everything was absinthe! It's all wormwood!
At the beginning of the 2th century, all European countries banned absinthe except Spain. Since then, people have bid farewell to the smash hit wine. It was not until the end of the 2th century that people began to realize that this was a misunderstanding! In the past, the cause of death from drinking had little to do with wormwood, but was basically related to excessive drinking. You know, in the past, it was all alcohol above 8 degrees, and it was strange to drink too much and not die! In fact, the content of thujone in absinthe is very low. If you drink too much, the alcohol will kill you before the thujone takes off! Looks like a mistake! Absinthe has experienced a century of glory, followed by another century of depression and desolation, and is now in the stage of gradually rehabilitating and lifting the ban.
The composition of plants and herbs is extremely complicated-medicine is poison, and poison is medicine
Like many herbs, wormwood is also a double-edged sword. Can get rid of diseases and relieve pain; Raise your spirits and strengthen your brain. However, there are also side effects. wormwood contains thujone, which will stimulate the central nervous system and cause convulsions. Need to be careful The composition of plants and herbs is extremely complex, containing a variety of alkaloids, and their efficacy and side effects are still in the process of continuous cognition. Knowing only one thing and not knowing the other is the basic condition of most of us' cognition of most herbs.
In the herbal medicine collections of many nationalities in the world, there is no lack of such an instruction:
Medicine is poison, and poison is medicine. It depends on how you prepare it and how to suit the right medicine! A typical example is about a big poisonous weed-Li Lu, whose English name is False hellebore. The species in North America is called Indian Veratrum hellebore. Veratrum of Liliaceae is a perennial herb. Living in high mountains, I like to be wet. The leaves are large and broadly oval. Terminal spikes of small yellow-green flowers. Li Lu was bitter, cold and poisonous, commonly known as "mountain green onion". After a little entrance, he died. I had an almost fatal collision with Veratrum once.
I remember that summer, when I was guarding the frontier in Inner Mongolia, I rested on the high mountains, bathed in white clouds and blue sky, the flowers were gorgeous and attractive, squirrels jumped and climbed branches, wild foxes peeped with delight, and stone chickens kept chattering. Suddenly, I felt tasteless in my mouth, so I pulled out a wild green onion (there are many kinds of Veratrum, the kind in Inner Mongolia, and it looks like a Shandong green onion, but it doesn't have a spicy taste), sent it to my mouth, took a bite, and in a moment, I only felt dizzy, my eyes were black, and then I went straight for a golden flower and fell on the rock. I felt sick and vomited that deadly poisonous weed. Alone, lying on that high mountain, hazy and confused, looking up at the sky, thinking, I'm afraid this is my last day in the world! It took two hours before I recovered my breath. The house of the ghost spirit, at the gate of the terrifying, turned around, didn't see the terrifying, and came back! That fateful kid is the famous Veratrum!
from the kiss of death, I became extra careful! I am in awe of wild plants and herbs. That poisonous weed, which makes you dizzy and dark, can't heal ghosts and gods, break the intestines and break the liver, and invade people's lives. If the imp is ferocious, the rope hooks the soul and goes straight to the underworld.
Veratrum nigrum is a big poison, but it is also an extremely important Chinese herbal medicine. Used to treat a variety of diseases. Compared with the precious traditional Chinese medicine of our ancestors, it is no coincidence that many herbs prepared by North American Indians have added the great poison of Indian veratrum Indian hellebore. Veratrum nigrum can also help lower blood pressure and heart rate. Only medicine man, a witch doctor of Indian tribe, knows this superb and wonderful preparation skill.
In addition to using wormwood against poison bee, there is another common grass, namely mint. Mosquitoes here are poisonous, and it is very itchy after biting, so you must scratch it! Use mint grass to deal with mosquito bites, especially after treatment, which is very effective! There are also some common herbs to deal with poisonous insect bites, such as purslane, ghost acupuncture and so on
the mysteries of nature are colorful and endless. There are thousands of exotic flowers and grasses in the middle. Vanilla is rich and poisonous weeds are enchanting. The devil has a good side, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. You have your evil influence abuse, and I have my stolen fairy grass!