Annapurna, an aphrodisiac and to massacre The process never started Yarsagumba It's called the world and is known as "Himalayan Viagra". It 'a fungus that grows on the mummified larva of the Himalayan butterfly, with exceptional aphrodisiac properties: its price exceeds that of gold. But it is said to bring bad luck. Not coincidentally, is the center of one of the most ferocious crimes which have seen the news in the history of high altitude villages in Nepal: that of Nar, the slopes of Annapurna.
Nar rises 4000 meters in the district of Manang. And 'one of the most fertile per lo Yarsagumba, che qui è fonte di sostentamento per numerosi villaggi: ognuno ha la propria zona di raccolta del prezioso fungo, che viene venduto profumatamente oltreconfine: è uno degli elementi fondamentali della medicina cinese. Nel giugno del 2009, alcuni contadini della tribù di Gurkha si infiltrarono nella zona per raccogliere il prezioso fungo. Gli uomini di Nar, venuti a conoscenza delle loro intenzioni, si unirono in una piccola armata e, armati di bastoni, rocce e attrezzi agricoli, assalirono il campo allestito dagli “intrusi”. Fu una strage. I sette Gurkha furono trucidati: due di loro lanciati in un crepaccio e altri 5 lapidati e fatti a pezzi, poi gettati in un fiume glaciale. Dopo il delitto, gli abitanti di Nar si gathered in a sort of conclave, promising that they would never tell anyone what had happened. But after a month, the story came up. Other members of the Gurkha tribe came to ask for news of friends and someone confessed, making the two find their bodies thrown into the crevasse, now in the process of decomposition. The Gurkhas, horrified, went down to the village of Chame to report them. The police found the bodies, stopped the entire village of Nar and then release women and children.
stop at Nar
Cham had never been a prison. Violent crime was almost unknown to the population, predominantly Buddhist, and usually non-violent. So they locked him arrested, A total of 36 men in a school while awaiting trial. All deny the crime and say the victims died accidentally when a fight is brewing on the right to collect the Yarsagumba. But it must be proved by law. Too bad the process has not yet been celebrated: the judges and lawyers have not submitted to the court deputy, rising to 2 days walk from the first road. Already three times, the last a few days ago, the case was postponed because of this absence. The next relevant date is set for March 30, 2011. Meanwhile, Nar has become a ghost town. Few have been issued and without the male population, the economy has stopped: Nobody builds houses, no one knows the properties, few women could replace their husbands in the work they deserve. They say that this is not the first murder linked to the collection of valuable Yarsagumba, perhaps for this reason that the rest of Nepal is associated with bad luck and a bad Kharma. For the elderly Buddhists, collect and trade was considered a sin. But the new generations have been less hesitation, and when everything settles disputes within the community living in remote areas, according to their traditions and to resolve things outside the judiciary. Many residents of these remote areas even speak a language very different from Nepal. The Yarsagumba, medicine cinese, è considerato un potente afrodisiaco ed un elisir di gioventù. Si dice prolunghi la virilità nelle lunghe notti invernali dell’Himalaya, ma la sua assunzione deve avvenire in modo costante. Di solito viene assunto in piccole dosi, sbriciolato tra i cereali o nelle minestre. Che si tratti di un mito? Pare di no. Uno studio della Stanford Medical School ha riscontrato un aumento di ormoni nelle urine di chi lo ha assunto. Alcuni test su animali alimentati con lo Yarsagumba hanno dimostrato una riduzione del tempo di recupero dopo un orgasmo e una maggior produzione di liquido seminale. Qualcuno ha provato a coltivarlo, ma gli effetti riscontrati sono stati molto minori: non resta, quindi, che dare la caccia allo Yarsagumba selvatico, che cresce only above 3,500 meters in some areas of Nepal and Tibet. But watch your back ...
Sara Sottocornola