The wild grass Seven-Star Sword was once a poor man's healing herb, and now it has become a rare commodity at 18 yuan per jin

Friends living in rural areas, especially some older farmer friends, are very fond of many wild grasses, because quite a few wild grasses are highly useful. I remember when I was a child living in the rural mountainous area, at that time my family was still relatively poor, and when we got sick we never went to the hospital. Instead, my parents would go up the mountain to gather some wild grasses, bring them back, boil them, and drink the decoction, and then the illness would be cured. So at that time, many farmer friends living near the mountains regarded the wild grasses in the mountains as a poor man's healing herb. Below, I will introduce to you one such wild grass from the mountains, which is also a wild grass I once used.

In the great mountains of the countryside, there is such a peculiar wild grass. Its large leaves look like a long sword, and this wild grass generally grows only on damp stone walls or rock faces in deep mountains and old forests, so generally only farmer friends living in mountainous areas know it. Many farmer friends call this wild grass "Seven-Star Sword." In fact, the original name of this wild grass is "Jiangnan Star Fern," and in some places it is also called Piancao, Wawei, Forbes' Star Fern, Seven-Star Phoenix-Tail Grass, and Large-Leaf Bone-Row Grass.

When it comes to the wild grass Jiangnan Star Fern, many friends may not be familiar with it. Apart from the older generation of farmer friends, in the past, friends living in rural mountainous areas were relatively poorer than now, and many times when they got sick they could not afford to go to the hospital, so they could only go into the great mountains to find some wild grasses for treatment. Jiangnan Star Fern is one of the commonly used folk medicinal herbs. It is a perennial evergreen wild grass, so no matter what season you go into the mountains, you can pick it. It can be said that it once saved quite a few people's lives, making many poor people very fond of it.

So what specific medicinal values does Jiangnan Star Fern have? I also consulted relevant materials. According to the "National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicines," the whole plant and rhizome of Jiangnan Star Fern can be used as medicine. Its taste is slightly bitter, its nature is cool, and as medicine it has the effects of clearing heat and draining dampness, cooling blood and detoxifying. It can be used to treat influenza, asthma, bronchitis, jaundice, infantile convulsions, pulmonary tuberculosis cough, rheumatoid arthritis, strangury, urinary tract stones, dysentery, leukorrhea, snake and insect bites, unnamed swelling and toxin, furunculosis and carbuncle, traumatic bleeding, heat strangury, difficult urination, rheumatic pain, fractures from falls and blows, and more than a dozen other symptoms. One can imagine how high its value is, so it is not without reason that farmer friends like it.

Precisely because Jiangnan Star Fern has such high medicinal value, nowadays quite a few farmer friends specially cultivate it to sell. According to a fellow villager in the village who cultivates Jiangnan Star Fern, because this wild grass is basically unavailable in the city, its value is quite high, about 18 yuan per jin, which can also be considered a rare commodity, and quite a few farmer friends have become rich by cultivating Jiangnan Star Fern. So even though this wild grass looks strange, it is still very precious.

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