Eucommia ulmoides Oliv is a kind of herb and also a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. The bark of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv can be used as medicine. It is mainly used to treat the weakness of legs, pain of knee joints, instability of fetal Qi during pregnancy, strengthening the kidney and benefiting the essence of men and other symptoms. But it is said that the origin of Eucommia is a very sad story. Have you heard of it?
In the industrial society has not yet developed, all labor life needs human to complete. In the area of Dongting Lake, cargo transportation relies on water transportation, in fact, wooden boats transport trade goods. As a result, there are a lot of trackers who pull boats and carry goods for living on the shore. Because of their physical work all the year round and often soak in the cold lake water, their waist and knee joints are suffering from serious pain.
Later, a new young man named Eucommia came. He was very kind-hearted. He saw that the old men were suffering from illness and was very sad. He was determined to find a good medicine for them and relieve their pain.
So, Eucommia will pack up a simple luggage on the road. He came to a mountain rich in a variety of Chinese herbal medicines, and coincidentally met a white haired old pharmacist, hurried to inquire about the whereabouts of the good medicine, but the old pharmacist ignored him.
Seeing the days of leaving home longer and longer, Eucommia was gradually anxious. Once again, he summoned up courage to find the old medicine Weng, and explained his original intention of going up the mountain to find the medicine. Finally, he moved yaoweng and explained to him a good medicine that can cure lumbago and knee joint pain. After thanking the old man, Du Zhong moved forward like a deeper place in the mountain. When he sighed that the mountain road was more and more difficult, he met a woodcutter. The woodcutter advised him that the mountain road was dangerous. The medicine he asked for grew on the most dangerous cliff. He had better go down the mountain and go home. After thanking the woodcutter for his kindness, Eucommia finally chose to work hard for the old trackers.
The exhausted Eucommia slipped and passed out. When he woke up, he found that the medicine he had been looking for for for a long time was right beside him. Excitedly, he quickly collected a bag full of medicine to go down the mountain to go home. But because too tired fell in the mountain spring, was washed into the Dongting Lake. By the time it was discovered by the trackers, Eucommia had lost its life. In his arms, he still held the collected traditional Chinese medicine tightly. The trackers took the medicine home with tears in their eyes, and miraculously cured the body's stubborn disease.
In order to express the missing of the little cilia, people named the bark of this plant Eucommia ulmoides Oliv, which is still the case today.
