Berkeley herbal Botanical Garden

The majestic Berkeley mountains, the winding old golden Shandong Bay, blue sky and clear water, clear waves and emeralds, mountains and trees, streams and springs The mild marine climate is an ideal home for plants to flourish all year round The "traditional Chinese medicine botanical garden" jointly built by Guangzhou University of traditional Chinese medicine, San Francisco American College of traditional Chinese medicine, University of California Berkeley botanical garden and three colleges was established in 1986 in the botanical garden park of Berkeley The Botanical Garden Park maintains the original ecological landform The mountain is not lofty and the gully is not steep It is divided into nine planting areas along the ups and downs of the mountain All kinds of plants are introduced to different states and rainforest areas of the United States They are bases for scientific and technological workers to study and protect ecological balance and plant provenance, and also for tourists to visit and enjoy One warm spring day, I came to the Botanical Garden Park in Berkeley from San Francisco I followed the winding mountain path and the clear stream to find the Chinese herbal botanical garden in the quiet place In the lush garden, only one piece of "garden garden of traditional Chinese medicine", the white marble monument, is particularly eye-catching The golden seal script on the stone tablet, surrounded by mountains and forests, shows the rich oriental elements Hundreds of meters around the hill, all kinds of Chinese herbs: Salvia price, burdock price, bupleurum price, Anemarrhena price, Gentiana price, Coptis price, perilla price grow sturdily The label stands in front of the plant The label includes the Chinese and English names of the plant, functional classification, scientific name, applicable symptoms and parts of herbal medicine Note: herbs are for viewing only, please do not eat the collection of the botanical garden In China, botanical gardens for traditional Chinese medicine can be found everywhere, but in the United States, botanical gardens for traditional Chinese medicine are classified into botanical garden functional areas Smelling the fragrance of all kinds of herbs, I feel very kind A kind of medicinal gas precipitated in the years rises in my heart, which is more fragrant than all the fragrance of flowers and fruits Next to the garden, a teacher is teaching his students Chinese herbal medicine in person "The prescription of traditional Chinese medicine consists of multiple herbs Most prescriptions need to be boiled into soup Because the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine focuses on the whole body reaction, the side effects of Western medicine are not common in traditional Chinese Medicine.. " Then the teacher asked the students to find out some herbs to dispel the cold and relieve the symptoms An American boy, walking quickly to the price of perilla, saw that he was taking pictures and recording I asked curiously, "what are the effects of this purple plant?" "Perilla is a kind of price leaf with a pungent taste It has the effect of releasing cold and regulating qi It can cure cold, fever, cough, asthma, chest and abdominal distention, etc "Compendium of Materia Medica" states that "it can move Qi widely, clear phlegm, benefit lung, and blood, warm, relieve pain, and relieve asthma." I was surprised at the fluency and understanding of Chinese medicine He said that he loves traditional Chinese medicine, and after graduation, he will study in China College of traditional Chinese medicine for a few years, and then open a traditional Chinese medicine clinic in the United States In the United States, planting traditional Chinese medicine botanical garden, although still in the immature stage, needs to explore a lot But she has opened up a thousand years of Chinese traditional medicine culture, linking and extending across the Atlantic Ocean.