Familiar and strange snow lotus: deified medicinal value.

On the evening of September 21st, because in the latest issue of the program, a guest picking the country's secondary plant (Snow Lotus) was angry with netizens, "Extreme Challenge" program group issued an apology statement, to the vast number of viewers to give a sincere apology. At present, the Tibet Autonomous Region Forestry and Prairie Bureau officials have been involved in the investigation of the incident.
Capital Normal University associate professor, Botany Ph.D. Gu Yi told the Health Times reporter that the current protection of jellyfish snow rabbit is still in a state of inability to rely on, the program team planning to pick "Snow Lotus" is indeed a misleading, very bad impact on the public.
from snow lotus flowers to water-wood snow rabbits, these "mountain visitors" are suffering from the disaster of no delusion, endangered plight.
Snow Lotus Guba / Photo
Snow Lotus Guba / Photo
is both strange and familiar snow lotus
Snow Lotus, a name with a little legendary plant. From ancient times to Chinese love snow lotus, has a long history. In poetry, modern martial arts novels, films and legends, the plant has been given many magical and specific functions.
return to the plant itself, snow lotus, also known as snow lotus, is a chrysanthemum chrysanthemum perennian herb. What we usually call snow lilies is not a species, but a large family of many species. According to the morphological differences, snow lily can be divided into two categories, namely, the snow lotus genus and the snow rabbit sub-genus. The genus Sherrin usually has large leaves, plants will have glands, long gland hair, secrete mucus, smelly;
"Most of the snow lilies have a bad appearance, a bad smell, and are more or less toxic." Gu said.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Botany Systems and Evolutionary Botany National Key Laboratory Associate Researcher Chen Hesheng introduced that most of the species of snow lotus is distributed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its adjacent snowy plateau, of which rat-curved snow rabbits are distributed on Mount Qomolangma at an altitude of 6400 meters, which is currently known as the highest elevation record keeper of higher plants.
China is a large country with a large distribution of snow lilies, according to the latest information, there are 80 kinds of snow lotus, about 92% of the species are distributed in China, all over the country's 14 provinces. Among them, Tibet has the largest variety of snow lily, there are 51 kinds, Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan, Xinjiang, Gansu snow lotus species are more than 10 kinds. Hebei, Henan, Inner Mongolia and other places, although there is snow lotus distribution, but only 1 species of purple snow lotus.
such an extremely ordinary common chrysanthemum genus plant, but in the last two decades, driven by various legends, has become the public's mind can treat a variety of diseases of the "god medicine." Due to excessive mining, the natural resources of snow lily are increasingly scarce, has become the country's secondary protection of plants and endangered species.
"When we did our science, we didn't even want to pick the specimens
and two-thirds of the sherry and snow rabbit sub-genus were endangered and human-destroyed species. Gu said that the only and fundamental cause of the endangered snow lotus is the excessive human mining, snow lily is suffering from the disaster.
On August 10, 2015, a netizen posted a post entitled "Wolf Tower is crying, Tianshan is crying, please don't put your black hand on the snow lotus" on the tourism forum, which caused widespread concern in the society and reflected the status quo of the snow lotus being blindly dug for a long time.
about the recent star picking snow lotus incident, Gu told the Health Times reporter, in the program appeared in the so-called "snow lotus", is the same family as snow lotus, called jellyfish snow rabbit. It is an endangered plant that lives only in the mountains above 4,500 meters above sea level in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. "Because of the scarcity, we can't even pick up specimens when we do."
According to Gu, jellyfish snow rabbit is a perennial flowering plant, living in extreme environment, generally on the rocky beach, is a mountain mountain due to rock weathering after the formation of an almost entirely composed of small debris of the environment. Plants such as jellyfish snow rabbits, because of their poor living environment, poor nutrition, growth and its not easy, once destroyed, extremely difficult to recover, directly lead to population threats. If collected during flowering, the plant loses the opportunity to scatter seeds, and in the long run, the species is in danger of extinction.
" jellyfish snow rabbit distribution is still relatively wide, in the eastern half of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are distributed, but the number is small, and decreasing year by year, according to the researchers field survey found that some of the previous distribution of jellyfish snow rabbits in the hills are now invisible, or occasionally only a few sporadic plants exist. Gu said.
Under the influence of the superstition that "Snow Lotus is god medicine", local people pick jellyfish snow rabbits and their various snow rabbits and sell them at low prices at the market, selling for only 5 yuan to 10 yuan. "It is heartbreaking that such endangered and need-to-protect plants are being sold in such a way." Gu said.
in an e-commerce trading platform, the reporter entered the keyword "Snow Lotus", there are hundreds of shops selling snow lotus. The words "health, tonic, cure" are used throughout the advertisement. A shop selling Tibetan snow lotus told the Health Times reporter that they are selling ordinary wild snow lotus, abundant supply, the store's monthly sales of snow lotus 5,600 pieces.
" online sales of real snow lotus has a lot. Gu said the e-commerce platform sells both snow lotus and snow rabbits. Generally speaking, from Xinjiang is the snow lotus, from the Tibetan area is the snow rabbit. Neither snow lily nor snow rabbits can be cultivated by hand, but may only come from illegal harvesting in the wild.
" not only sell snow lotus flowers online, in many tourist attractions in Xinjiang and Tibet, you can see everywhere selling dry snow rabbit shops, low-cost sales, sales are very large. Gu said.
has found that tianshan's snow lotus has become "collectively shorter" due to human picking, because tall species are always picked up by collectors, leaving small species to reproduce. In the long run, snow lotus flowers will become smaller and smaller because of human over-picking.
The medicinal value of snow lotus is deified
" the medicinal value of the so-called snow lotus is not any scientific basis, it is not a traditional Chinese medicine, and in the beginning even as a 'poisonous grass', in the pharmaceutical industry should not use snow lotus, should not be used as medicinal herbs. Gu said that superstitious wild plants have magical efficacy, the so-called magical effect of snow lily are all false, is entirely from martial arts novels, folklore compiled out of the content, resulting in the inevitable snow lotus has become the people's eyes of the "god medicine."
Professor Lu Yang of the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine told the Health Times that Xuelian is not easy to obtain plus its own limited ability, is not the rumored god medicine, but just an ordinary plant. And in the clinical chinese medicine, is not a common medicine, to the patient's prescription generally will not have.
the random picking of jellyfish and snow rabbits is infuriating, the people involved may not be punished. Gu said that although jellyfish snow rabbit is an endangered species, but not officially included in the national list of key protection of wild plants.
it is understood that in the current latest National Wildlife Conservation List (draft for comments), several species of jellyfish snow rabbits (including jellyfish snow rabbits) are included in the national secondary protection plants, although the list has not yet been promulgated.
In addition, because xuelian did not enter the national list of key animal and plant protection, from the national level there are no laws and regulations to protect snow lily, but at the local level, for example, Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai has issued regulations on local protection of snow lily. "However, the implementation of these existing regulations and regulations has not been good, or even implemented, there are no cases of law enforcement. At present, snow lily, like vegetables, can be openly placed on the street for sale, sometimes even in the vegetable market. Gu Lei said.
legislation is essential to strengthen the protection of endangered plants. Gu suggested that the legislative protection of snow lotus flowers should be continuously promoted and strengthened, and it should be included in the national list of key protections such as the legally binding list of protections. In addition, there will be increased academic research, education and science on endangered plant conservation. From the top to strengthen legislation, from the bottom to increase civil education, both sides need to work hard.
many of the plants that grow like snow lilies in harsh conditions are endangered. Don't just destroy flowers and grasses, this is the minimum social virtue, as long as you abide by this article, you will not make the mistake of destroying endangered wild plants. "Guba put forward an initiative.
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