In the eyes of people who had read martial arts novels, snow lotus had been elevated into something mythical. Ten-thousand-year-old ice, thousand-year-old snow lotus-they all supposedly had miraculous effects, bringing the dead back to life and regrowing flesh on bare bones, praised like divine medicines.
But to ordinary people in Northern Xinjiang, it was just a medicinal herb, nothing particularly rare. Even herb gatherers heading into the mountains found it less worthwhile than digging fritillaria-first, nobody bought it in large quantities, and second, it did not grow as densely or as widely as fritillaria.
Its growing conditions were also fairly demanding, and harvesting it was difficult.
To the locals, anything above the snow line was called snow lotus, while anything below could only be called stone lotus.
Later, Li Long had learned from an online platform that those above and below the snow line were the same thing, scientifically classified as plants of the stone lotus genus in the stonecrop family. They were stone lotuses to begin with.
It was just that those above the snow line grew in harsh conditions, so their medicinal effects were better-rather like the difference between wild ginseng and understory ginseng?
Li Long had also learned that snow lotus was not as miraculous as outsiders imagined, but neither was it as ordinary as the locals thought-it really was an excellent medicinal herb for stopping bleeding!
In traditional Chinese medicine, snow lotus flowers were warm in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and entered the liver, spleen, and kidney meridians. They dispelled cold, strengthened yang, regulated menstruation, and stopped bleeding, and were used to treat impotence, weakness of the lower back and knees, irregular menstruation, excessive uterine bleeding and vaginal discharge, rheumatoid arthritis, and bleeding from external injuries.
From the perspective of modern medicine, snow lotus