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123. Papaya
Soaked in water to drink, it has a slightly sour and rotten smell, similar to watermelon rind left overnight.
Drinking it directly is very tasty, similar to hawthorn water, sour and sweet, with a fruity aroma, generating saliva, and leaving a sweet aftertaste.
Effects: aids digestion and stomach, generates saliva and moistens dryness, sour and sweet to nourish tendons.
The best papaya is Xuan papaya, ah, Xuancheng, my spiritual hometown.
124. Silkworm sand
A pre-statement: I don’t eat feces, so I can’t say I love traditional Chinese medicine.
After soaking silkworm sand in water, it looks like a miniature version of mulberries, which makes one curious about the digestive tract structure of silkworms—they can produce feces shaped like a hexagonal plum blossom, stacked grain by grain, just like magnetic balls piled up.
Holding it in the hand and playing with it, it easily crushes accidentally, releasing some mucous substance that will stick to the hand.
Drinking the soaked water tastes basically the same as mulberry leaf water. Silkworm babies are really cute—they eat mulberry leaves and defecate mulberry leaves, hey. The difference is that mulberry leaf water is not astringent, but silkworm sand water is a bit astringent to the throat.
Actually, many foods in our daily lives are feces (metabolic waste). For example, alcohol is yeast feces; many people happily drink it.
The effects of silkworm sand resemble those of Clematis (Weilingxian) a bit; it also fills internal cavities and has some tonic effect, but it is relatively mild and overall in a “moisturizing without sound” state.
Effects: opens meridians, moistens muscles and skin pores, supplements vitamins.
125. Shenjin herb
Looks a bit like cypress leaves (a combination of cypress leaves and pine needles), after soaking in water it has a slightly pungent smell, also like cypress leaves.
After drinking, you instantly feel your knees warm up, then the ribs, shoulder blades, shoulder joints, and elbow joints gradually warm up one after another.
When the heat reaches below the wrists and ankles, the muscles also gradually begin to warm up.
Effects: relaxes tendons and activates collaterals, opens joints; by itself the effect of dispelling wind, cold, and dampness is not obvious, needs to be combined with corresponding herbs.