淮地寻“野马”，药田问本源——南中医“脉络寻源实践团”走进药田探寻本草生长密码

Searching for "wild horses" in Huaihe, and asking the origin in medicinal fields- -Southern Chinese Medicine "Convex Source Searching Practice Group" went into the medicinal fields to explore the growth code of Materia Media

盛夏百草园，药垄纵横。7月17日，南京中医药大学“脉络寻源实践团”走进江苏食品药品职业技术学院百草园种植基地。从“看图识药”到“田间辨药”，这群青年学子聚焦淮安盱眙道地药材——野马追，践行“从田头到床头，构建振兴国药全产业链思政育人共同体”的理念，试图为这株江淮本草留下真实可感的记录。

Summer grass garden, medicine ridge vertical and horizontal. On July 17, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine "vein source-seeking practice group" entered the planting base of Baicaoyuan of Jiangsu Food and Drug Vocational and Technical College. From "looking at the picture and identifying the medicine" to "distinguishing the medicine in the field", this group of young students focused on Huai 'an Xuyi authentic medicinal material-wild horse chase, practicing the concept of "from the head of the field to the head of the bed, building a community of ideological and political education to revitalize the whole industry chain of national medicine", trying to leave a real and sensible record for this Jianuai herbal medicine.

识药于野：俯身草木间，辨一叶一茎

Identifying Medicinal Herbs in the Wild: Bending among plants to tell leaves and stems apart

步入百草园，科普展板最先留住了脚步。淮山药、前胡、草决明、白术……图文交错间，药材的形态与习性渐次铺开。队员们边看边记，提前圈出“撞脸”特征。纸上有了底，下田便不慌了。

Upon stepping into the herbal garden, popular‑science display boards immediately caught the team’s attention. Chinese yam, Peucedanum praeruptorum, senna seed, Atractylodes macrocephala… Amid illustrations and texts, the morphological features and growth habits of these medicinal herbs were laid out in sequence. Team members took notes as they read, marking in advance traits that make different herbs look alike. Armed with this theoretical knowledge, they felt well‑prepared for field identification.

跨过田埂，纸上的名字终于有了真实的触感。薏苡茎秆挺拔，草决明叶片舒展，乌蔹莓沿竹攀援，西洋参隐于林下绿荫。遇到两株藤本难以区分，队员们便凑近反复比对：有人拍下叶脉特写，有人蹲在垄边勾画轮廓。一次次的弯腰触摸，让那些原本停留在图片里的冰冷药名，终于在指尖长出了温热的根茎与枝叶。

Stepping across the field ridges, the herbs they had only read about on paper finally came to life within reach. Coix boasts tall, sturdy stems; senna spreads out its leaves; Rubus coreanus climbs along bamboo stalks; and American ginseng nestles beneath the shade of woodland canopies.When two vine‑like plants proved hard to tell apart, team members leaned in for repeated comparisons: some snapped close‑up photos of leaf veins, while others squatted beside planting ridges to sketch plant outlines. Through repeated bending down and hands‑on touching, those cold, abstract herb names once seen merely in illustrations took tangible form as warm rhizomes, stems and leaves right beneath their fingertips.

问道于土：一味野马追，藏着淮地密码

Asked in the soil: blindly chasing wild horses, hiding the Huai land code

行至一片菊科植物前，老师停下脚步：“这就是野马追，淮安盱眙的道地药材。”队员们顿时围拢。此前在展板上见过图片，可实物摆在眼前，仍有人误以为是加拿大一枝黄花。正是这个“误会”，撬开了追问：二者到底怎么分？“野马”之名有何来历？

Stopping before a patch of Asteraceae plants, the instructor pointed out: “This is Eupatorium fortunei, a genuine‑region medicinal herb native to Xuyi, Huai’an.” The team members quickly gathered around. Though they had seen photos of it on display boards, some still confused the live specimen with Canadian goldenrod. This very confusion sparked a flurry of questions: how can we reliably tell the two species apart? Where does the Chinese name “Yemazhui” come from?

老师蹲下身，从叶片锯齿、茎秆绒毛一路讲到花期差异，又沿着种植周期、田间管护、采收加工，把药材的一生徐徐展开。

Squatting down, the instructor explained distinctions ranging from leaf serrations and stem pubescence to flowering‑time differences. He then walked through its full lifecycle, covering planting cycles, field maintenance, harvesting and primary processing, unfolding the complete story of this medicinal herb.

话题渐渐从植株本身，延伸到了“道地”二字的分量。盱眙被《中国药典》认定为优质产区，并非偶然。淮河冲积土壤、温润水热与世代农法，共同锁定了有效成分。这恰恰印证了“田头”种植的严苛标准，正是为了守护百姓“床头”用药的安全底线。“道地”远非地理标签，而是自然与人文的长期协同。认识一味本草，不能止步于“有什么用”，更要追问“从何处来、为何扎根”。

The topic gradually extends from the plant itself to the weight of the word "authentic. It is no accident that Xuyi is recognized as a high-quality producing area by the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. Huaihe alluvial soil, warm water and heat and generations of agricultural methods, together locked the effective ingredients. This just confirms the strict standard of "Tian Tou" planting, which is to protect the safety bottom line of people's "bedside" medication. Far from being a geographical label, "authentic" is a long-term synergy between nature and humanity. To understand the herbal medicine blindly, we should not stop at "what's the use", but also ask "where it came from and why it took root".

建档于案：让乡土记忆走出田野

File in the case: let the local memory out of the field

踏访结束，队员们围坐整理笔记。“一份本草档案，该记录什么？”原植物辨识、产地环境、栽培加工、产业现状……大家逐项梳理，田间照片同步归档。

Upon completing the field visit, team members sat in a circle to organize their notes. “What should a herbal‑medicine archive document?” Original‑plant identification, habitat conditions at the producing site, cultivation and processing, and industrial status… The group went through each category one by one, while field‑shot photos were archived in parallel.

座谈中得知，当地虽已形成产加销链条，但种质资源保护与公众科普传播仍有提升空间。队员们意识到：建档不是目的，传播才是归宿。让书页外的草木走进孩童视野，让水土故事可感可传，才是档案的灵魂。下一步，团队将结合此次踏访所得，把植株形态、辨识方法转化为科普内容，待这些一手材料走进暑托班与社区课堂，孩子们看到的将不再是枯燥的药名，而是真实生长于江淮大地的本草。

From the forum, the team learned that although a local production‑processing‑marketing chain has taken shape, gaps remain in germplasm resource conservation and popular‑science outreach. Team members reflected that documentation is not an end in itself; communication is the ultimate goal. The core value of these archives lies in bringing real‑world medicinal plants beyond textbook pages to young audiences, so that stories tied to local land and waters can be experienced and passed down. Going forward, building on findings from this field survey, the team will convert plant morphology and identification techniques into popular‑science resources. When these first‑hand materials are delivered to summer care programs and community workshops, children will encounter not just dry‑sounding medicinal‑herb labels, but living materia medica native to the Jianghuai region.

归途｜笔墨落处，草木长青

On the way home | where the pen and ink fall, the vegetation is evergreen

离开百草园时，风从药垄间穿过，叶片轻轻翻动。队员们从展板认药，到田间辨药，再到案头梳理，也愈加明白：本草档案记录的不只是名称与功用，更是一株植物所依存的水土与凝结的经验。

As they left the Medicinal‑Herb Garden, wind drifted through the herb ridges, stirring the leaves softly. Moving from identifying herbs from display boards, to field‑based on‑site recognition, and finally to desk‑top collation, team members gained deeper insight: herbal archives document far more than plant names and medicinal effects. They also capture the local soil‑water conditions that sustain each plant, alongside accumulated practical wisdom.

丙午马年，“野马追”的名字恰有一份追风向前的意趣。一株本草能走多远？答案不在典籍里，而在田垄间，在每一次俯身辨认的专注里，在每一份被认真记录的生长数据里，也在未来孩子因一张科普卡片而记住它的瞬间里。随着这份档案的初步落成，一株淮上本草在青年笔端获得了新的生命。这也正是“振兴国药全产业链思政育人共同体”中，青年学子应有的担当——用脚步丈量土地，用笔墨传承国粹，让国药瑰宝在新时代焕发生机。

In the Bing‑wu Year of the Horse, the project name “Wild‑Horse Chase” carries a fine spirit of forging ahead against the wind. How far can a single Chinese medicinal herb travel? The answer lies not in ancient classics, but in farm fields, in the focused attention of every stooped identification, in every carefully logged set of growth data, and in those future moments when children recognize it from a popular‑science card. With the preliminary completion of these archives, a Huai‑shang medicinal herb gains renewed life through young people’s writing. This embodies exactly the mission of young scholars within the Community for Ideological‑Political Education on Revitalizing the Whole Industrial Chain of Traditional Chinese Medicine: to tread the land with their feet, pass on the essence of Chinese materia medica through writing, and enable these precious TCM treasures to thrive in the new era.

文字：李忠泽

Text: Li Zhongze

图片：郑宇恒

Photo: Zheng Yuheng

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