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Flower language and legend of Houttuynia

Jesse Pinkman
2020-09-22 09:20:02
Each kind of flowers and plants has its own unique flower language and legend. Even if Houttuynia is a Chinese herbal medicine, it can not cover up the fact that it is also a kind of flowers! Let's follow Xiaobian to learn about it.

Flower language of Houttuynia cordata

Pulsation. Those who are born with the blessing of this kind of flowers are always striving for success, and few are ordinary.

So do not look at the name of Houttuynia seems very simple, but his moral is not simple at all!

Herba Houttuyniae

The history of Houttuynia cordata

It's said that Gou Jian, the king of Yue, was a prisoner of the king of Wu. He lived on the hardships and tasted gall. He vowed to make the state of Yue stronger. But in the first year of his return, there was a rare barren year. The people had no food to eat. Goujian himself went up the mountain to look for edible wild vegetables, and finally found one. So, the whole country of Yue actually relied on this little wild vegetable to survive. Because this kind of wild vegetable has fishy smell, it is named Houttuynia by Goujian.

Herba Houttuyniae

The legend of Houttuynia

It is said that a long time ago, in a poor village, there were unfilial couples who often abused the blind old mother. Once, the old man was seriously ill. He had a high fever, coughing and coughing. The husband and wife not only depended on not treating their mother, but also blamed the old man for pretending to be ill. The neighbors couldn't see it any more, so they sent a fish to make up for their ailing mother. The husband and wife promised on the surface, but secretly concealed the old man and ate all the fish and soup.

Because he was afraid that his own scandal would affect his face when his neighbor came to see his mother again, his son picked a kind of wild vegetable with fishy smell on the hillside and cooked fish soup to deceive his mother and let her drink it. The good mother believed it and drank bowl after bowl. Unexpectedly, the disease was miraculously cured. Later, it was spread out, and people were denouncing the same couple and knowing the properties of wild vegetables, which was also called "Houttuynia". < spanlang = "EN-US" >

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