Ginseng

In the mountainous area of jingbo lake, mild climate, abundant rainfall, abundant natural forest vegetation and vegetation, provide excellent conditions for the breeding of herbs and plants. Huangqi, bei mu, the party ginseng, the thorn 5 plus and other valuable medicinal materials abound; The most famous is ginseng. It is the crown of Chinese herbal medicine, the top of the "three northeastern treasures".
The upper part of the root of the ginseng root is round like a human head, and the branch is shaped like a human arm and leg, like a human body, so called ginseng, the earth is called a "mallet". It belongs to the perennial herb of the pentagaceae, mainly grown in the red pine - dominated needle. Plant height can reach 6 cm, leaf is palaceous compound leaf, rotation is in stem of the item end. The first annual leaf stalk, three compound leaves, called "three flowers"; Two years later, five compound leaves, such as open palms, are called "slap"; Blossom in the fourth year, in the umbellar inflorescence, on the top of the stem, in light green; The fruit is a red globular shape, like a mass of onyx, until the seventh year, six "palms", also known as the "six leaf". Ginseng is blossoming every summer, autumn fruit ripening, the seeds of the seeds fall to the ground, it takes 20 to 22 months to germinate, after 40 to 50 years of time, can grow to one or two heavy. A mountain or two is more expensive than a gold or two. Therefore, people often say, "seven or two for the ginseng, eight two for the treasure" (according to the old system sixteen two is one jin).
Go up the mountain to dig a ginseng, call "put a mountain", also call "collect treasure". Once upon a time, the "mountain people" in the mountainous area of the mirror were generally formed, and when they were gathered, they were separated by about three meters each, and they were listed in a horizontal line. When someone found the ginseng, he immediately shouted, "stick!" The comrades immediately should say: "fast!" Dinner-table quickly run to come over, first with a two heads and copper wire tied to the red ginseng stems attached, and then shovel weeds around to go, with wood dig unearthed, with a bamboo stick slowly eliminate roots of the soil, has been to more than three feet deep, to reveal a complete ginseng.
There are many beautiful and touching legends about ginseng and jingpo lake. Some say: ginseng is a fat doll with a red pocket; Some say that ginseng is a little girl with a head and flowers in a green coat. In addition, the ginseng has become a silver - bearded old man... They are the personification of kindness and justice, the relief of suffering for the poor. People also give it a magical effect on the medicinal effect of ginseng, saying that people can live forever, rejuvenate, return to life, and so on. Ginseng is indeed a very valuable herb.
The medicinal effect of ginseng was first discovered in China. In the warring states period more than two thousand years ago, the famous doctor bian que had a good understanding of the medicinal properties and curative effects of ginseng. The Ming dynasty medicine saint li shizhen in "compendium of materia medica" says: ginseng can make up the five dirty, stop the fright, besides the evil spirit, the bright eye, happy, the wisdom, the long service may light body prolong life. In modern times, according to some scientific researchers, it is found that ginseng contains: ginseng, which stimulates the brain, heart and blood vessels, and promotes the metabolism of human cells. Also contain sugar 6 glycosides, ginseng tannins, etc., to stimulate the endocrine system, lowering blood sugar has good curative effect, especially in recent years, it has become the medicine of the treatment of various cancers, and spaceflight care of one of the best.

Ginseng is widely used, with high value, but extremely slow growth, and with constant digging, there are fewer and fewer mountain cucumbers (now only a few thousand per year in the country). Our country began to cultivate people three hundred years ago, and people called this ginseng garden ginseng. A lot of ginseng garden in the mountain area, give a lot of luster to the lake.