A hundred years of “Asian ginseng” dug in wild mountain in Hunan with a total weight of about 35 kilograms

“I dug into two giant Gegen.” Yesterday, the reporter learned from Hu Juhua’s home in Pioneer Township, Yuhu District, Xiangtan City, that she had seen the Daugegen rooted from Yueyang Pingjiang Mountain.

Rooting puerarin: digging for one day and digging nearly two meters underground

In the living room of Hu Juhua’s family, the reporter saw one of the giant puerarin roots. Its skin was not very smooth, and its color was light gray, which was rough and uneven. Although it has been cut into 3 sections, the spliced ​​shape resembles a bar, gradually thickening from the root to the top. A rough estimate, it is about 1 meter long, the largest diameter of 20 cm. The other Pueraria had been cooked by his family and had two large pots. An 80-year-old neighbor said that such a large Kugen was the first time he had seen this life.

“The roots that are cooked are 15 kilograms in weight, and the other one is more than 20 kilograms in weight, and this is not the whole of the two pueraria roots.” Hu Juhua said that they were dug in a wild mountain in Yuejiang, Yueyang, on March 12. That morning, she and the master in the temple went to the mountain to search for Pueraria, initially digging only a few kilograms of pueraria, and found a lush Kudzu leaves in a hidden place. After excavation, it was found that Pueraria was very large. The two pueraria are long together. They dug a whole day and dug nearly two meters deep into the ground. The branch of light was cut off three or four times before they were dug out.

Identify puerarin: it is wild Pueraria radix, preliminary judgment has grown for nearly a hundred years

In order to clarify the details of the two roots of Pueraria, Hu Juhua specifically sought the advice of the staff of the Xiangtan Drug Control Institute. This is the wild Pueraria, initial judgment has grown for nearly a hundred years. According to the staff of the Institute of Drug Control, Gegen is a treasure that is known as "Asian ginseng" and has been recognized as a dual-purpose plant by the national health authorities. Pueraria is grown in some mountain areas in Hunan, but wild Pueraria has been rare.

Hu Juhua said that the already-cooked pueraria looked like ginseng, she would eat it herself, and another could be given to the people she wanted. She said that if a citizen wants a pueraria, he can give it to him for free, but he hopes that the other person can help repair the kitchen in the temple.

Little Knowledge Pueraria

The famous medical scientist Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty conducted a systematic study on Pueraria lobata and believed that stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and roots of Radix Puerariae can be used as medicine. The dried roots of Pueraria lobata are long and cylindrical. Herbs are often cut longitudinally or obliquely into plate-like thick slices, ranging in length from each other, and are generally about 20 cm long. Most parts of the country have production, the main production Henan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Sichuan and other places.