According to legend, there is a farmer named Tie Ge living at the foot of Laoshan Mountain. Brother Tie’s family is very poor. He has no father at the age of seven and relies on his mother’s textile life. Brother Tie's mother often cried because of the hardships of life and event

According to legend, a farmer named Tie Ge lives at the foot of Laoshan Mountain. Brother Tie’s family is very poor. He has no father at the age of seven and relies on his mother’s textile life. Brother Tie's mother often cried because of the hardships of life and eventually became blind. Brother Tie worked for the rich man, and got up early and started to clear the land and plant vegetables in the dark, and relied on selling vegetables to exchange for some money to seek medical treatment for his mother.

One night, Brother Tie had a dream, dreaming of a beautiful girl coming to help him grow vegetables, and told him: "Double miles west of Laoshan, there is a white chrysanthemum, which can cure eye diseases."

On the second day, Brother Tie brought enough dry food to find white chrysanthemum . He searched there for many days, and finally found a white wild chrysanthemum in the grass beside a small mound in the grass. This white chrysanthemum grows very special, with one branch of nine branches, only one flower blooming in front of you, and the other eight flowers are in bud. Brother Tie dug back the white chrysanthemum with roots and soil and moved it to his house. After he was watered and cared for, eight flowers bloomed one after another, which were fragrant and beautiful. So he picked a white chrysanthemum every day and decocted it for his mother to take it. After eating the seventh chrysanthemum, Brother Tie's mother's eyes began to become clear.

The news that white chrysanthemums can cure eye diseases soon reached the rich man Zhang, and he sent several subordinates to Tie Ge's house to force the white chrysanthemums to rob him. As the two sides fought for it, the chrysanthemums were broken. Brother Tie was very sad when he saw this Bai Juheng, who had cured his mother's eye disease, and sat next to the broken Bai Ju and cried until dark, but refused to leave until late at night. In the middle of the night, the beautiful girl I dreamed of last time suddenly came to him. The girl advised him, "Although the peduncle is broken, the root is still there, it is not dead. As long as you dig out the root and transplant it to another place, white chrysanthemums will grow."

Tie Ge asked, "Girl, who are you? Please let me know, I want to thank you very much."

The girl said, "I am the chrysanthemum fairy in the sky. I'm here to help you, there's no need to repay you. As long as you follow the song "Planting Chrysanthemum Ballad", the white chrysanthemum will definitely grow and live."

Then the chrysanthemum fairy said, "Three points and four flat heads, water in May, water in June, shaking the material head, seven or eight covers the head, and rolling the hydrangea in September." After reading it, it disappeared. Brother Tie returned to the house and carefully pondered the "Battle of Planting Chrysanthemum Fairy" by the chrysanthemum fairy, and finally realized the meaning: planting white chrysanthemums should be transplanted in March, pinched the head in April, watered more in May, fertilized frequently in June, and protected the roots in July and August, so that hydrangea chrysanthemums can bloom in September.

Tie Ge did it according to the guidance of the chrysanthemum fairy, and later many branches really exploded on the old roots of the chrysanthemum. He cut off these branches to cut them, and then cultivated them as stated in "Planting Chrysanthemum Ballad". In September of the following year, fragrant white chrysanthemums bloomed. Later, Brother Tie taught the skills of planting chrysanthemum to the poor people in Murakami, and more and more people were planting white chrysanthemums in this area.

Chinese medicine chrysanthemum

Introduction

In Plant Taxonomy is a perennial herb of the Asteraceae family and Chrysanthemum genus . According to the cultivation form, it is divided into cultivation types such as multi-headed chrysanthemum , single-headed chrysanthemum , big-length chrysanthemum , cliff chrysanthemum art chrysanthemum , desk chrysanthemum and other cultivation types according to the appearance and shape of the petals are divided into cultivation types such as round hugs, chasing hugs, back hugs, random hugs, heart hugs, flying hugs, etc. The chrysanthemums in different types are also named with various varieties. Chrysanthemum is one of the top ten famous flowers in China, one of the four gentlemen among flowers (Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum), and one of the four cut flowers in the world (Chrysanthemum, rose , carnation , gladiolus ), with the highest yield. In ancient myths and legends, chrysanthemums are given the meaning of auspiciousness and longevity.

Chrysanthemums are mainly produced in Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan and other places.Medicinal materials are divided into " Boju ", " Chuju ", " Gongju ", " Gongju ", "hangju" and so on according to their origin and processing methods. Because of the different colors of flowers, there are also yellow chrysanthemums and white chrysanthemums.

Medicinal value

Chrysanthemum tastes bitter and sweet, and has a slightly cold nature. It enters the lung and liver meridians.

has the effects of dispersing wind and clearing heat, calming the liver and improving eyesight, clearing heat and detoxifying.

can cure wind-heat cold , headache and dizziness, red and swollen eyes, blurred eyes, sores, carbuncles and toxins. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: wind and heat, eyes are painful and want to get rid of, tears come out, nourish eyes and remove blindness, and make a pillow to improve eyesight.