The legend of Eucommia ulmoides

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Eucommia ulmoides is a herbal plant and a traditional Chinese medicine. The bark of Eucommia ulmoides can be used as medicine. It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as weakness in the legs, knee joint pain, unstable fetal gas during pregnancy, and strengthening the kidneys and essence in men. . But according to legend, the origin of Eucommia ulmoides is a very sad story. Have you heard of it?

The legend of Eucommia ulmoides

Eucommia ulmoides is a herbaceous plant and a traditional Chinese medicine. The medicinal part of Eucommia ulmoides is its bark, which is mainly used to treat weak legs, knee joint pain, and fetal gas during pregnancy. Symptoms such as instability and male enhancement of kidney and essence. But according to legend, the origin of Eucommia ulmoides is a very sad story. Have you heard of it?

In an era before industrial society developed, all working life required manpower to complete. In the Dongting Lake area, cargo transportation relies on water transportation, which is actually wooden boats transporting trade goods. Therefore, there were many trackers who made a living by pulling boats and moving goods on the shore. Due to years of physical labor and frequent immersion in cold lake water, the trackers suffered from severe pain in their waist and knee joints.

Later, a new little girl named Eucommia came. The tracker was very kind-hearted. He felt very distressed when he saw the old trackers being tortured by their illnesses, and was determined to find a good medicine for them to ease their pain.

So Eucommia ulmoides packed her simple luggage and hit the road. He came to a mountain rich in many kinds of Chinese herbal medicine, and by chance met a gray-haired old pharmacist. He hurriedly went to inquire about the whereabouts of the good medicine, but the old pharmacist ignored him.

Seeing that the days away from home were getting longer and longer, Eucommia ulmoides gradually became anxious. He once again plucked up the courage to find the old medicine man, and told him his original intention of going up the mountain to find medicine, and was finally moved. The medicine man revealed to him a good medicine that could cure waist and knee joint pain. Eucommia ulmoides thanked the old man and headed deeper into the mountains. When he lamented that the mountain road was getting more and more difficult, he met a woodcutter. The woodcutter advised him that the mountain road was dangerous, and the medicine he wanted grew in the most dangerous places. At the cliff, it’s better to go down the mountain and go home. Eucommia thanked the woodcutter for his kindness, but finally chose to work hard for the old trackers.

The physically and mentally exhausted Eucommia accidentally slipped and fell unconscious. When he woke up, he found that the medicine he had been looking for for a long time was beside him. He was so excited that he quickly collected a full bag and prepared to go back down the mountain. Home. However, he collapsed in the mountain spring due to excessive fatigue and was washed into Dongting Lake by the flood. When the trackers discovered that Eucommia ulmoides had already lost its life, he was still holding the collected Chinese medicine tightly in his arms. The trackers took the medicine home with tears, and after taking it, it miraculously cured the body's chronic diseases. .

In order to express their longing for the little tracker, people named the bark of this plant Eucommia ulmoides, which is still the case today.

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