Mr. Tam Co’s group was used to taking medicine in the mountains, so even though they were vegetarians, they were thin, but climbing the mountain was unharmed. I shuffled behind. Where is the medicine? I climbed up and down. Seeing flower eyes, weak legs. Wanting to complain, but afraid of being kicked back, try to keep climbing. Kick after kick and then kick again. Interspersed in the rock are flat sands planted with clover. The drug is further away. It was almost lunch time, when the group had collected a pack of cigarettes each, I caught up with the group. I hesitantly walked over to take some pictures of people taking medicine. Hesitating every step for fear of long reptiles hiding under the leaves, hidden somewhere in the rock crevices. The more wild the place, the more drugs, the more potential wild animals contain venom. Those who take medicine follow the shadow of each branch of medicine growing in the rock jam, on the cliff to reach, uproot, remove the roots… Dust leads to the other, up and up again. Taking medicine is not easy. The journey of carrying heavy packs of cigarettes down the mountain was even more difficult. The steep stone slopes are slippery, and people are crawling along each rock crevice. When taking a lot of medicine, the whole group had to climb up and down carrying medicine three or four times a day on the narrow road. Uncle Ut Egypt, the leader of the group, wore a bandana and smiled with a crisp black smile: “What’s the point of coming here? We’ve been going to get medicine since we were biking. Pedal here from home for half a day, then climb the mountain to dig for medicine and then carry the medicine down the mountain. It takes a couple of days to get medicine for a couple of days. Then the medicine dwindled, had to go all the way to the island, to Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos. Many people have died from falling ill while taking medicine in the deep forest of poisonous water. But when you see drugs, you are greedy, so go ahead without fear of extremes.” Uncle Ut Egypt is trying to fly over Ba Doi Om mountain. Uncle Ut Egypt is more than sixty years old, good at picking bones for hire. People take the salary of five million, you take two million. Then he spent that money as the cost of going to herbal medicine to collect each medicine cart and distribute it to good doctors in the area. Extremely happy to help life. Seeing the drug ham is like a farmer having a successful crop. People like the group of Uncle Ut Egypt, Mr. Tam Co turn their own lives into the miraculously healthy arms of caring doctors. They replace the hard work of doctors in planting, tending or hunting for precious medicinal plants in places where there is miasma. They replace the doctor in danger to bring back the patients the quintessential medicine that heaven and earth worked hard to mold. During this trip, the group of men looking for medicinal herbs followed the silhouette of a winged tree. Let’s fly. They have no wings but they can fly. As long as the spores are able to settle, life is formed. Looking at each hour trying to lie in the rock, with thick root clusters, containing large tubers overflowing with medicinal resin, people wonder: “How does it live in the drought?”. Drought here, even the ancient trees with large long roots crawling deep in the ground are also bare and bare. At that time, each bunch of people trying to eat on the rocks turned their heads down in the burning sun and kept cherished in small streams of life. The stream of plastic gradually dries up with the water source. Mother’s body has long withered. Before it died, it exerted its last bit of strength to multiply countless spores. The spores hide in the dry body of the mother, lying there or blowing in the wind and then leaning against the cliff to wait. Sunny, then sunny, then more sunny. The germ of life is still waiting quietly. Humans eat plants and then the corpses eventually mix with the soil to grow plants. In plants there are people, in people there are plants. Each bunch of trying to wear a living cliff waits to live like this year after month. Medicinal plants themselves aspire to live, overcome hardships to live, not to flower and bear fruit, and finally to accumulate and store medicines… Living herbs spread somewhere in the mountains, in the middle of the forest, next to the lettuce leaves. Who knows the name of the drug, who knows the use. People just call it trash or worse, a weed. The herb has been smoldering in it so much sun and wind. How many pure minerals of the wind and sky country are received and retained in each herbal body. Yet when it comes to the pharmacy, in the hands of the user, the herbal slices are no longer worth the money. People easily collect hundreds of ladders of medicine, drink it and can’t throw it away. What is wrong with herbs? Every human body is a product of nature. Every drop of herb is every drop of pure nature. For or against it, it is also reversible in nature. No matter how rapidly society develops, it must realize that what nature creates to nurture each other is perfect. Plants that flower and bear fruit feed butterflies, while the caterpillars also cultivate fertilizer for flowers and fruits. Humans eat plants and then the corpses eventually mix with the soil to grow plants. In plants there are people, in people there are plants. The flow of minerals operates like the circulation of water through all life. Herbs, the species that live quietly like flying, like ginseng, such as octopus, sand species …, live not to accumulate essences for fruit but to put all the accumulated minerals year after year for the stems and leaves of tubers. roots. The older, the more concentrated the essence, the more seasoned the drug. Mr. Dien takes care of a medicinal herb garden of about 15 people with more than 20 varieties. The cinnamon tree has been sewn for eight years and is only as tall as a human head. Herbs are a treasure of heaven and earth. But it is precious only to those who belong to it. There was a teacher in the medicine profession who said, “In the fields, people call for herbs. In the hands of a physician, the plant becomes a single element.” But a few doctors can really turn plants into lingzhi. The ominous thing is that we are still plying our trade and praying for good luck and herbs. So drugstores are still rushing to collect drugs, medicinal plants are still being cut down and herbs are still the last place to cling when the disease has reached the final stage. Each herbal treatment becomes a black and red game of chance. We understand so little about herbs. Like the old saying we die on a pile of pills. We understand very little about herbs, so many doctors prescribe them inappropriately, but patients believe that the doctor tries to take them, making the condition worse. We abuse the source of herbs because simply walking out in the summer can fill a pot of medicine with a floating prescription. Both herbs and chemicals need dosages and procedures. Physicians who truly understand their profession and have a real work ethic will monitor the patient’s daily medication use, mastering each of the properties of herbal plants to prescribe and change prescriptions according to the disease’s condition. If not carefully monitored by conscientious physicians, herbs are poisonous. A good physician is a researcher who can understand the properties of herbs, describe the symptoms, listen to the feedback. A good doctor will recognize where the patient’s disorder comes from, and how to get rid of that root. After doing a lot of research to be able to speak clearly, to create confidence in the patient, the doctor gave his prescription fifty percent effective. When the body accepts, a little medicinal properties also make the disease calm down. When the body receives, one can drink cold water and still be healthy, let alone drink the quintessential herbal lines of heaven and earth. Human life lies in the core of the proverb “eat vegetables when hungry, take medicine when sick”. Medicines of the ancients were herbs. We understand too little about herbs to have no faith in herbs. Let’s be our own teachers to accompany the doctor in the path of healing by a benign path from herbs. Don’t let ambiguity push you into the arms of charlatans and don’t let ignorance blame herbs. Herbs are as fresh as the rain and wind of heaven and earth. Herbal equity between rich and poor, good and bad. Herbs are treasures. Let’s open another life because of the old saying. Understand and be at peace with herbs. Articles and photos: Vo Dieu Thanh

The 5-hectare burdock field in Mac Binh village, Thai Tan commune is invested by Mr. Nguyen Manh Ha, Director of Senfarm Agricultural Cooperative, in association with households in the village, setting up a tree farm. on alluvial land along the Thai Binh river. According to Mr. Ha, burdock is a relatively easy plant, taking care of burdock is only difficult in the first one to 1.5 months because it has to be watered regularly, then the plant grows on its own, almost without care. fertilizer, only waiting to harvest when the plant has matured. Harvesting burdock is also different. Because burdock roots are deep in the ground, with tubers up to 1.2 m long, an excavator must be used. After six months of planting, burdock is only harvested, but the economic efficiency is two to three times higher than that of carrot, which is a traditional local crop. Fresh burdock root is supplied to high-class agricultural stores in Hanoi and food manufacturers at prices ranging from 90,000 to 120,000 VND/kg. Burdock can be grown all year round, which is quite convenient in crop rotation. It should be noted that the soil suitable for burdock is loose soil, preferably alluvial soil in the riverside area. Here, the root system develops well, provides enough nutrients, the tree will grow well, has high resistance to pests and diseases. In addition, the tree does not tolerate waterlogging, so the soil must be able to drain well. Burdock seeds need to be purchased from a reputable establishment that has the ability to grow quickly and has good resistance to pests and diseases. From the successful trial planting, Mr. Nguyen Manh Ha has guided people in the commune to plant and buy burdock root to help them, forming a chain of production and consumption links. Accordingly, some households have switched from growing carrots to burdock. In addition to planting and producing burdock, Senfram Agricultural Cooperative also cooperates with processing factories to market products such as fresh burdock, sliced ​​dried burdock, burdock cake, and other products. fermented burdock products, burdock tea bags…

Chicken eggs are a very common food, processed by people around the world with different types of dishes. But in China, people have a strange egg dish that at first glance can make diners not want to eat – the “brass egg” of Indochina, Zhejiang. It’s an egg boiled in a boy’s urine. “Intangible Cultural Heritage” of Indochina China has many strange specialties, including the dish boiled eggs in the urine of boys. Due to being popular since ancient times in many real historical records, the dish “boiled eggs with urine” was officially recognized as part of the “intangible cultural heritage” of Indochina, in in 2008, and proposed the recognition of a world cultural heritage for this unique dish. They believe that urine-boiled eggs are a part of Chinese cuisine and deserve the same honor as Korean kimchi or Japanese washoku. This dish of boiled eggs with urine in Dong Nam is considered a typical Chinese culture and is widely sold on the streets of Indochina city. In 2014, traditional Chinese chefs plan to introduce this dish to the world during Easter. With a certain amount of confidence, the chefs from Zhejiang province consider these eggs to be of an exceptionally high standard. Although they are processed by a method that scares many foreigners, their taste and effects are excellent. Visitors to the city of Indochina often cannot ignore the famous boiled egg dish here. This specialty has appeared thousands of years ago with its taste and healing effects. The dish is considered a tangible cultural heritage of Indochina. Similar to boiled eggs in tea, but with a special ingredient that is soaked, boiled and stewed in the boy’s urine and eaten as an elegant animal of the Chinese, this urine boiled egg dish Also known with a rather “beautiful” name is a boiled egg with pupil’s urine, or a boiled egg with a male’s urine. The dish “boiled eggs with urine” has a fairly simple recipe, consisting of only eggs, time and pupil urine. According to Mr. Lu Ming, the chef who wants to bring this dish to the world said that the urine for boiled eggs is obtained from primary schools. “The boys will pee in buckets and we collect them every day to ensure the best quality,” he said. Only boys’ urine is used, especially from boys under 10 years of age. There is no answer to the question of why it has to be a boy’s urine, only that this somewhat bizarre cooking method has existed for centuries here. In particular, people will use the entire amount of urine during the day instead of keeping it for use gradually to ensure the quality of boiled eggs. This egg recipe has been passed down through generations. Eggs boiled in boys’ urine are of an extremely high standard. Eggs are first soaked in urine, then boiled. The dish “men’s egg” is considered an elixir of life. Once the eggs have been hunted, the shell is broken to allow urine to penetrate into the egg, then continue to flush with urine at room temperature to prevent the egg from being overcooked. During the simmering process, urine is continuously added, along with some herbs. This recipe leaves the egg whites a pale yellow color, while the yolks turn green. After ripening, dong quai will usually have a pale yellow white and a green yolk, salty, sour and of course indispensable the characteristic “smell” of urine. However, this dish is considered not too difficult to eat. Recently, urine has added a distinct sour taste to eggs. The chefs were also unable to explain why. They think this sour taste is special and delicious. They want the dish to be exported widely so that the whole world can fully appreciate the value of Chinese cuisine. Considered a medicine Since ancient times, Eastern medicine has given “tieu dong’s juice” as a medicine, which can cure many different diseases. Therefore, it is said that boiled eggs with urine also have the effect of enhancing blood circulation, increasing vitality, and reducing pain in hips, legs and joints and even preventing stroke. Because of those “fanciful” uses, boiled eggs with pupil urine cost four times more than the price of ordinary boiled eggs. The ancients did not consider urine as a waste product of the body, but considered it a valuable medicine. That’s why people call this water samsara, reverting ladders. Modern researches today show that urine contains many substances that are beneficial to health such as urea, uric acid, hipuric acid, purine alkali, amino acids, fatty acids, endocrine substances (hormones) vitamins and enzymes. .. Thanks to the chemical composition and effects of these ingredients, scientists have been able to explain the medicinal uses of urine recorded in ancient documents that were previously unexplained. Accordingly, children’s urine is effective for postpartum women who are weak, cough, fever, and vomit blood, used to prepare some medicines. Mr. Ge Yaohua, an egg seller, introduced: “My family eats eggs in every meal. Families in Indochina love them. This type of boiled egg is very good for health, avoids back pain of the elderly, and gives more energy to work.” However, not everyone likes this dish. Whether it is an “intangible cultural heritage” or an oriental medicine with many healing and health-enhancing effects, not everyone is brave enough to try a strange and delicious dish. This unsanitary look. And there have also been many doubts and arguments, giving many warnings for this dish about the “unsanitary” problem not only in the way of eating but also in the air at the streets selling boiled eggs with urine. become “smelly”. According to Reuters, health experts have warned about hygiene issues surrounding the use of urine to boil eggs. The people of Dongyang themselves also split into two streams of opinion. One side said that this dish is “good for health and prevents colds”, the other side “does not believe it and is afraid to eat it”. In addition, the chefs could not explain why the egg dish has a very characteristic sour taste. Surely enjoying this egg dish will be a big challenge for diners from far away. However, if you are brave enough to try, this dish is extremely easy to find when coming to Indochina. Each boiled chicken egg costs 1.5 yuan (about 4,800 VND), twice as much as other boiled eggs but not too expensive for tourists. In addition, if there are acquaintances living in this city, it is highly likely that you will also be treated to a special egg dish by the host because the people here also often eat boiled eggs as a daily snack. This dish carries the two words “elite” in the culinary industry and the time element is inseparable. Whatever you say, boiled eggs with urine have existed for a century and become an indisputable cultural feature in the cuisine of Indochina in particular, and of China in general.

Strawberry leaves (illustration). In the ancient medical documents, there are many records of the care and treatment of the ancient Chinese beauties – which is considered to be the leading place in traditional medicine. Many Vietnamese traditional medicine doctors know how to refine and bring good ones to apply in our country. Excess fat is the “guy” that makes women look bad, so many women race to find ways to lose weight and lose belly fat. Now, the doctor shares the recipe for a remedy that can be considered a tea, or a very effective weight loss drink for women, with very friendly ingredients found in home gardens in all parts of the country. Lotus leaves (illustration). The original remedy in ancient documents was named “Five Diep to lose fat, lose weight quickly”. The ingredients are all benign, used instead of tea, changed water daily. Loofah leaves (illustration). Resources – Fresh loofah leaves 30-50g – Fresh bitter gourd leaves 30-50g – Fresh lotus leaf 40-50g – Lettuce leaves 30-50g – Fresh mulberry leaves 30-40g Bitter gourd leaves (illustration). Making The above leaves are picked or bought, washed and then chopped. Pour into the pot 2,500ml of water, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat. Cover the pot for a while, then turn off the stove, drink instead of water when it is still warm during the day and drink continuously until you see results. Lettuce leaves. Illustration. According to the concept of nutrition and disease treatment, the use of herbs as well as seasonal foods are valuable, effective, and highly effective. Therefore, women should take advantage of this application because it is the season of melons, bitter melons, mulberry leaves, lotus leaves… And lettuce leaves are available all year round. All 5 herbal medicines are very familiar. In general, the remedy has heat-clearing, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, detoxifying, fat-burning, and laxative properties, helping to release energy and excess fat in the body, helping to lose weight quickly and effectively.

Not only rich in protein and vitamin B, quail eggs also contain a lot of vitamins A, E, iron, potassium and phosphorus. If you use quail eggs as a skin mask, your skin will absorb the nutrients from quail eggs better than the egg mask. Red apple stewed quail egg dish is one of the very nutritious dishes for women, it has detoxifying effect, liver, very good for the kidneys, .. For women suffering from nervous breakdown, anemia, Menstrual pain, eating this dish twice a week will help regulate menstruation, make skin beautiful, smooth and rosy. Helps skin firmness Japanese women regularly apply a quail egg mask once a week to prevent sagging of the skin on the cheeks. To focus on the purpose of firming, separate the egg yolks and use only egg whites. You can use a special brush or use your finger to apply the egg whites of the quail evenly on the face. After 15 minutes, the mask will dry out gradually. Rinse off with water and then feel your skin firm, youthful. You can add lotions and nourishing serums to enhance the effect, keep skin healthy. Reduce wrinkles Wrinkles are a fear of many women. Quail eggs can effectively prevent the appearance of wrinkles thanks to the antioxidants. At the same time, quail eggs also balance the pH of the skin, help alkaline oil, reduce acne. You can apply quail egg whites to these wrinkled areas, at least twice a week, you will notice clear and positive changes. Soothes sunburned skin Since ancient times, the ancient Egyptians used quail eggs as a remedy for dermatitis or sunburn. If your skin gets sunburned, immediately apply a raw quail egg to this area. Leave it on after 20 minutes and then rinse with cool water and pat until dry, your skin will become much softer, less burning sensation and not hurt later. In addition to its effects on skin beauty, quail eggs also have many other effects. For example, quail eggs contain 15 times more vitamin B and about 2% more protein than eggs. But vitamin B or protein are all ingredients that are beneficial to the hair, strong hair roots, and reduce loss. Or quail eggs are also high in protein and fatty acids, making your nails stronger and shiny. If your nails are thin, dry, weak, and easy to break, you should increase your quail eggs in your daily meals. It seems that you are used to hearing the method of beautifying skin with eggs, but with quail eggs you will also have many unexpected effects. According to Vietnamnet

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Garlic is a wonderful medicine in every family. People can use garlic in treating a variety of diseases with good results. In oriental medicine, garlic has a spicy taste, is temperate, in two cans and flavors, the effect of heat, detoxification, poisoning, antiseptic, except for leprosy, pepper boils, phlegm …

Clean the stomach

Eating raw garlic on an empty stomach helps cleanse your stomach. Garlic is considered a natural antibiotic, has the power to remove toxins and harmful bacteria in your stomach, especially when you eat raw garlic on an empty stomach.

Toothache treatment

Garlic’s anesthetic properties are useful for toothache. When this phenomenon occurs, you should apply a little garlic oil on your teeth or suck on the crushed garlic is effective.

Cancer prevention

Garlic’s natural anti-cancer properties are proven to be good for the immune system. It has the ability to prevent many different types of cancer such as colon cancer, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer. In addition, this tuber can destroy cancer cells in the body.

Anti-infection

Vitamins C, B6, allicin, potassium, calcium, selenium, magnesium and flavonoids in garlic fight infections very well. These substances also effectively destroy bacteria, viruses, and candida cells.

Reduced blood sugar

Due to the effect of increasing the amount of insulin in the blood, garlic is useful for people with diabetes. However, this is only a supporting food, can not eliminate diabetes completely, so you should take medicine as directed by your doctor for better treatment.

Relieve a sore throat

Garlic contains antioxidants, which are beneficial for treating coughs, sore throats and laryngitis. If your throat is itchy, chew raw garlic or eat with carrots to reduce the smell. In addition, it is also an effective natural remedy for flu.