There are a long history of planting Prunella vulgaris and a good foundation for mass cultivation in the county. The production and sales volume has a large proportion in the country and has a good development prospect. In recent years, Jiaduobao, Heqizheng, Wang Laoji and other large-scale herbal tea production The company widely uses the summer dry ball as its main raw material, which makes it gain a broader market development space in addition to medicinal. There are more than 20 years of cultivation of Prunella vulgaris in the farms of Zhengshan County. The quality is good, the reputation is good, and the planting scale is expanding. It has become the main economic crop and agricultural product pillar industry in the county. At present, the county has become one of the six major raw material production bases of the herbal tea production enterprise Jiaduobao Group, and ranks first.

Prunella, as its name suggests, is a dry grass after summer. It grows in ravines, wetlands, river banks, wasteland, grass, and roadsides, and is widely distributed in Henan, Anhui, and Hunan. It has strong adaptability, and there are few pests and diseases in the whole growth process. It has certain curative effect on clearing fire and eyesight, headache, dizziness, chylorrhea and so on. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, "the night is even more bitter and cold, and the night is cold and the yin is also bad. The summer suffocating qi is pure yang, supplementing the blood of the yin and yin, so it is like a god, and Yang yin is also." There is such a story about Prunella vulgaris: In the past, there was a scholar named Mao Song, who had been familiar with five classics since childhood, but he tried many times, so he was so happy all the time, he was so ill, his neck appeared awkward, like a broad bean. Broken pus, the doctor is not. Fortunately, his father was at the foot of the mountain and saw a piece of green grass. He couldn’t be fainted here. He was rescued by a doctor. After he woke up, he drank Prunella, and he immediately recovered his strength. After learning about the many curative effects of this grass, he took it home and took it to Maosong. Soon after, the father and son planted Prunella vulgaris to treat the disease. It can be said that Prunella vulgaris has a high practical value and research value as a Chinese herbal medicine. This herb, which is widely cultivated in Zhengshan County, Henan Province, is a major source of income for the region and an industry supported by the local government. In the county of Zhengshan County, Henan Province, its territory is in the state of “three mountains, three hills, three points of land, half of the water and half of the manor”. That is, the highest point in the west is 813 meters above sea level, and the lowest point in the east is only 56 meters. The hills and ridges are interlaced, the valleys are criss-crossed, and the rivers are vertical and horizontal. The soil contains trace elements such as magnesium, boron, phosphorus, calcium, potassium and iron, which is unique for the growth of Prunella vulgaris. conditions of. It is understood that the summer mountain summer grass, not only attracts domestic orderers in Anhui, Hebei, Chengdu, Guangxi, etc., the products are exported to Southeast Asian countries and regions. Every time the harvest season, some drugstore bosses order in advance. According to statistics, the annual output value of Chinese herbal medicines in the county is more than 100 million yuan, providing local farmers with a pillar of economic income. At the same time, with the gradual deepening of the concept of single product e-commerce, local production companies have transferred the sales model to the e-commerce platform. For example, as the leading enterprise of the local summer buckwheat industry in the mountain, Zhengshan County Haorui Information Technology Co., Ltd. is the first to jointly establish the China Prunella Trading Network with the Chinese network library. In this way, the merchants who want to purchase or supply the Prunella can easily match and trade the Prunella business opportunities online. In addition, according to industry analysts, as people deeply discover the effects of Prunella vulgaris on lymphatic tuberculosis, breast hyperplasia, tuberculosis, hypertension and other diseases, the economic and social benefits of Prunella vulgaris will become more and more

Technical requirements for the quality of Prunella vulgaris I. Variety name Prunella vulgaris. 2. Planting management (1) Site conditions: The soil type is yellow brown loam, the soil texture is loam, the soil pH is 6.5 to 7.2, the soil thickness is ≥25 cm, and the organic matter content is ≥1.4%. (2) Seedlings: seedlings are carried out by live or seedbed. (3) Colonization: planting at the beginning of September, ≤7,500 beads per mu. (4) Environmental and safety requirements: The use of pesticides, fertilizers, etc. shall comply with relevant state regulations and shall not pollute the environment. 3. Harvesting and processing (1) Harvesting: Harvesting is carried out in the middle and late June, when 80% of the ears are brownish red. Avoid rainy days to harvest. (2) Processing: After the sun is dried, the ear is cut, and the stems required to be cut are not more than 2 cm. Fourth, the quality characteristics (A) Appearance characteristics: the body is long and full, is rod-shaped, thick and well-proportioned, soft, elastic, not easy to break, length of about 7.0 ~ 10.0cm, diameter 0.8 ~ 1.5cm. The dried product is light brown to brownish red. The smell is fragrant and the taste is light. (2) Physical and chemical indicators: water content ≤14.0%, leachate ≥10.0%, rosmarinic acid content (dry product) ≥0.22%. (3) Environmental, safety and other quality technical requirements: Product safety and other quality technical requirements shall comply with relevant state regulations.

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Producers within the scope of the production of Prunella vulgaris can submit an application for the “Special Mark for Geographical Indication Products” to the Industrial and Commercial Management and Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau of the County, which is reviewed by the Henan Provincial Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision and reported to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. Announced. The testing organization of P. sylvestris is selected by the Henan Provincial Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision in the testing institutions that meet the qualification requirements.