Legend of the saffron flavored medicine

A strange disease suddenly appeared in a small village. Throughout the skin the patient grows a lot of nodules, looking like bumps, causing intense itching, causing them to scratch constantly, sometimes even bleeding without help.

The strange disease spread quickly, after only a few days, all villagers were infected. Local physicians tried all kinds of medicines, but they were useless. There was a Taoist who came to the village, saying: "You have to go to a small island in the South China Sea, pick up the fruits of a medicinal plant with leaves like bird feathers, cook water, and cure it. But there are many snakes on the island, they often make a nest on that medicinal plant. Everyone heard that, only sighed, disappointed.

There were two brave boys who tried to take their medicine to the island to pick up medicine, but they did not come back. Perhaps they were bitten by poisonous snakes. Meanwhile, the disease developed every day, a number of people suffering from ulcers all over the bones and flesh and blood flowing all over the body. If it is not cured, the disaster is difficult to anticipate.

(Photo: SK & ĐS) Before that suffering, there was a guy who was determined to go out and get medicine. There are things, after leaving the village, he did not come straight to the island but went to find medicine to cure snake venom. After being treated by a doctor for how to prevent poisonous snakes by alcohol, the young man just returned to the island. After all the hard work, he finally brought the medicine to the villagers. Using the seeds to cook bath water, the sick person is only 2-3 times less, and the heavy ones only have to bathe about 5-6 times.

Because it is the seed of a tree that is solid or lying, the above drug is named the sieve, which means 'fruit on a solid bed'. According to a survey of botanists, places with sycamore plants often encounter many snakes. In addition, in places where there are lots of snakes, underneath the stalks of trees, there are often no spotted seeds. Ancient people believe that sieve seeds are the snake species used for ' vegetarian ' food .

Whether the legend is true or fiction, the healing effect of sore sores is still true . From the past until now, soap is still considered a good medicine to treat the itchy skin diseases such as pimples, eczema, atopic dermatitis, women vaginal itching, vaginitis . Research results Modern research has confirmed that the sieve has a strong inhibitory effect on staphylococcus aureus, green pus bacillus, vaginal flagellum and fungi that cause itching in the skin.

Only thing, sieves are not ' endemic ' plants on a small island outside the South China Sea, but grow wild in many places. In Vietnam, soap is often found on river banks, vacant land, or wild fields.

Sieves ( cnidium monnieri L. ) Are 0.4-1 m tall grass stalks, standing up and branching. Staggered leaves, split feathers twice. The flowers are small white, grow into double canopy, flower stalks are longer than petioles. The inflorescence looks like a ridge or sieve, so the tree is also called 'sieve'. Oval fruit is slightly flattened. Because the fruit is very small, it is only about 2-5 mm long so folk are often called 'seeds'. To use as medicine, when the fruit ripens (June-August), people pull or cut the whole tree, dry it, beat the fruit, remove impurities, dry it well.

In addition to the treatment of itching, sore sores increase sexual function in both men and women. In Hong Nghia's book of private letters , Tue Tinh once wrote: 'The intensity of acupuncture is so good, the old man drinks quite the same as ten girls'. Modern research results show that sieves are similar in effect to testosteron, increasing the weight of uterus and ovaries in experimental animals.

In addition, this pill also helps prevent heart rhythm disorders, regulating blood pressure; anti-asthma, elimination of sputum, enhance immune function, anti-allergy, relieve pain, local anesthesia, improve brain function, increase memory, prevent osteoporosis .