Legend of Eucommia ulmoides

Eucommia ulmoides is a kind of herb and a traditional Chinese medicine. The medicinal part of Eucommia ulmoides is its bark. It mainly treats the symptoms of weakness of legs, pain of knee joint, unstable fetal Qi during pregnancy and strengthening kidney and benefiting essence in men. But it is said that the origin of Eucommia ulmoides is a very sad story. Have you ever heard of it

In the age of undeveloped industrial society, all labor and life need to be completed by manpower. In the area of Dongting Lake, cargo transportation depends on water transportation. In fact, wooden boats transport trade goods. Therefore, there are many trackers who pull boats and carry goods on the shore for a living. Due to their perennial physical work and often soaking in the cold lake water, they have serious diseases and pains in their waist and knee joints

Later, a new little tracker named Eucommia ulmoides came. He was very kind-hearted. He was very distressed to see the old trackers tortured by illness. He was determined to find a dose of good medicine for them to alleviate their pain

So Eucommia ulmoides gathered up a simple bag and set out on the road. He came to a mountain rich in a variety of Chinese herbal medicines, and happened to meet an old pharmacist with white hair. He hurried to inquire about the whereabouts of the good medicine, but the old pharmacist ignored him

Seeing that the days away from home were getting longer and longer, Eucommia became increasingly anxious. He summoned up the courage to find the old yaoweng again and talked about his original intention of going up the mountain to find medicine. Finally, he moved yaoweng and explained to him the good medicine that can treat low back and knee pain. Eucommia thanked the old man and walked forward like a deeper place in the mountain. When he lamented that the mountain road was becoming more and more difficult, he met a woodcutter. The woodcutter advised him that the mountain road was dangerous and the medicine he asked grew on the most dangerous cliff. He'd better go down the mountain and go home. Eucommia thanked the woodcutter for his kindness, and finally chose to work hard for the old trackers

The exhausted Eucommia ulmoides accidentally slipped and fainted. When he woke up, he found that he was surrounded by the medicine he had been looking for for for a long time. Excitedly, he quickly collected a full bag and prepared to go down the mountain and go home. But because he was too tired, he fell into the mountain spring and was washed into Dongting Lake by the flood. By the time the trackers found out, Eucommia ulmoides had lost its life and held the collected traditional Chinese medicine tightly in his arms. The trackers took the medicine home in tears and miraculously cured the persistent diseases of the body

In order to express the longing for the little tracker, people named the bark of this plant Eucommia ulmoides, which is still the case today