In recent years, the wild plant , which was once very common in my country, has been included in the national key protected wild plant due to the sharp decline in the number of wild populations. Because many people do not understand the level of plant protection, a large number of national key protected wild plants have been caused.
Recently, police officers from the Tugumaiti Border Police Station of the Atushi Border Management Brigade of the Kezhou Border Management Detachment were conducting home visits, and found that there was a pile of forage covered with tarpaulin at the door of a herder in the jurisdiction.
After verification with relevant departments, this pile of forage is wild licorice, a national second-level key protected plant. It is reported that the accumulated licorice is winter feed for herders. It is mainly used to feed cattle. It weighs 5 tons (illegal mining weight), and feeds more than 80 cows.
According to the herdsman, he did not know that the forage was wild licorice, nor did he know that the species belonged to the national second-level key protected wild plant.
It is reported that due to the huge amount of illegal mining of wild licorice, the farmer's illegal mining of wild licorice has been suspected of endangering national key protected plants. Many netizens said: National second-level key protected wild plants as forage are too luxurious!
Wild licorice
Licorice is a very familiar Chinese herbal medicine. Its history has been recognized and applied in my country for a long time. For example, in the pre-Qin period, the ancestor of the dictionary of in the Warring States Period " Erya ", " Shennong Bencao Jing " by , Eastern Han Dynasty "Medical Saint" Zhang Zhongjing has licorice records in his work " Theory of Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases ".
Among them, in "Shenlong Materia Medica Jing", licorice is listed as the top product: "Licorice is sweet and flat, and is responsible for the cold and heat evil qi of the internal organs, strengthens the muscles and bones, grows muscles, and grows muscles, and is swelling of the metal sores, and detoxifies."
The so-called licorice is actually the Legume and Licorice genus plants. It is a perennial herb. Its roots and rhizomes can have a maximum diameter of up to 3 cm and has a sweet taste.
Licorice plants have a erect stem and many branches. Usually the q height is between 30 and 120 cm, and the length of the leaves is between 5 and 20 cm.
Licorice mostly grows in arid and semi-arid sandy soil, desert edges and loess hilly areas, and mostly grows in extreme continental climates, such as those places where summers are hot, winters are severe, and temperature difference between day and night is large, it has strong adaptability and strong stress resistance.
Wild licorice is basically distributed in Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu and Xinjiang, where my country has fragile ecological environment and relatively backward economic development. It can be divided into Xinjiang licorice and Ural licorice , etc., mainly in wild and artificial cultivation.
licorice has very high economic value and is listed as the top grade in "Shenlong Materia Medica Jing". It is called the "national elder" level in "Hanliu ". Its main rhizomes can be used as medicine. It is rich in triterpenes and flavonoids. also contains alkaloids, polysaccharides, coumarin , amino acids and Zn, Ca, Sr, Ni, Mn, Fe, Cu, Cr, etc.
drought contains glycyrrhizic acid content greater than 2%, replenishing the spleen and replenishing qi, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, clearing heat and detoxifying, and harmonizing various medicines, and has very high medicinal value.
National secondary key protected wild plants, what is the current situation of wild licorice?
In recent years, with the improvement of people's living standards, the market demand for wild licorice has continued to grow. There are three main reasons:
First, due to the enhanced human health awareness, people are very fond of traditional Chinese medicine health care, which has led to the continued increase in the popularity of Chinese herbal medicines, and the application of licorice has become more widely used.
Second, the export volume is very large. Licorice is a large-scale medicinal material exported by my country. It is currently exported to more than 30 countries and regions, and the market demand is large.
Third, the multi-scenario application of licorice. Currently, licorice is not only a Chinese medicinal material, but is widely used in food and light industry, so that the ingredients of licorice are found in a large number of foods.
Due to the large market demand, many local residents have found a large amount of wild licorice mining, which has caused wild licorice to be almost exhausted in many places in my country. According to statistics, 70% of the land in Maerzhuang Township, Yanchi County, Ningxia has been dug up many times, resulting in the licorice resources being almost exhausted.
In the "Announcement of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (No. 15 of 2021)" issued on September 5, 2021, wild licorice is listed as National Second-Class protected plant .
Summary
Wild licorice, as a precious Chinese medicinal material, has a large market demand, but it is not inexhaustible. Excessive mining will only lead to a sharp decrease in the population, and will eventually make wild licorice less and less until it disappears. This will also be a tragedy for humans. Therefore, we must protect wild licorice.
