Dahe Bao Yu video reporter Liu Ruichao
dandelion
Spring wants to go, summer will come, wild vegetables are also over? In fact, even in the summer, there are still many wild vegetables to eat between the wilderness. However, some herbs are more similar, but the taste is quite different, and some are edible and some are inedible.
To this end, the Dahe Newspaper Yu video reporter and the Cyclamen Nature Education Center have popularized five common wild vegetables and similar wild grasses in Zhengzhou. The Cyclamen Nature Education Center reminds that not everyone is suitable for eating wild vegetables, and people with weak spleen and stomach and poor kidney function should try not to eat it. At the same time, wild vegetables are not the same as vegetables and drugs after all, and must be used in moderation
Gray cabbage
【Popular science】People with weak spleen and stomach and poor kidneys try not to eat wild vegetables
Nowadays, wild vegetables are used as a spice on the cooking table, but in the past, it was once necessary for famine years. Wang Dongchao, founder of the Cyclamen Nature Education Center and a master of botany at the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that as far as the Henan region was concerned, when famines occurred in the past, March and April were often the time when there was no green and yellow, and vegetables and grain were not available, so the victims could only dig wild vegetables to fill their hunger.
At present, although it is already the valley rain festival, spring is about to pass, and many citizens believe that there are no seasonal wild vegetables in the countryside. Not really. Wang Dongchao said that there are actually seasonal wild vegetables in all seasons of the year, and there are many wild vegetables that can be eaten in summer, such as pig hair, amaranth, gray ash, wild chrysanthemums, mint and so on.
However, wild vegetables can be eaten, but not more. The so-called snack is pleasant, and it hurts the body. Wang Dongchao said that the reason why wild vegetables have not become vegetables is still quite different from wild vegetables. Most wild vegetables have a cold body, people with weak spleen and stomach, and people with poor kidney function are recommended not to eat wild vegetables.
There are some wild vegetables that may also cause allergic and solar dermatitis. Such as gray cabbage, if eaten in large quantities, there will be a situation of general edema, which is not uncommon in news reports.
Eat wild vegetables, avoid two misunderstandings. First, wild vegetables cannot be used as vegetables, and you can occasionally taste them, but you cannot over-consume them. Second, wild vegetables can not be used as health care products, although some wild vegetables have blood pressure, blood sugar, anti-inflammatory and other functions, but after all, limited, can not replace the efficacy of drugs.
dandelion
【Type 1】Dandelion can still be eaten after flowering and needs to be distinguished from false ginseng and bitter lettuce
It's summer soon, what other wild vegetables are there to eat in the countryside? What weeds are they easily confused with? To this end, the Cyclamen Nature Education Center recommends five seasonal wild vegetables.
The first is dandelion. Dandelion, I believe everyone is familiar with it. The "Botanical Name True Tu Kao" calls it dandelion, the "Wild Recipe" calls it a white drum nail, and it has the names of Huang Hualang and Yellow Dog Head.
Fake also yang ginseng
The ancient Chinese medicine work "Bencao Tujing" records that "(dandelion grass) was not written in the old state soil, and now it is everywhere in the Pyeongtaek countryside." Seedlings in early spring, the leaves are like bitter lettuce, with fine thorns; a stem is drawn in the center, and a flower appears at the end of the stem, and the color is yellow like money; the broken stem has white juice, and people also eat it."
It can be seen that dandelions grow in a wide range. In early spring, seedlings are born, and the leaves resemble bitter lettuce, but have fine spines. If its flower stem is broken, white juice will flow out, and people will eat it in ancient times.
Wang Dongchao said that even after flowering, the dandelion leaves are still edible. However, dandelions are somewhat similar to false ginseng, bitter lettuce, and small dried wheat vegetables, and everyone needs to carefully identify them so as not to be eaten by mistake.
Noyama Chrysanthemum (Nogikuhana)
【Type 2】Wild mountain chrysanthemum leaves are edible Chrysanthemum leaves are bitter and unbearable to enter
The second plant is the wild mountain chrysanthemum. Wang Dongchao said they introduced some wild chrysanthemums from the mountains of western Zhengzhou. There is almost no difference in appearance between wild chrysanthemums and chrysanthemums, but the leaves of wild chrysanthemums are not bitter, while the leaves of chrysanthemums are bitter.
chrysanthemum
The "Botanical Names and Facts" records that the wild mountain chrysanthemum "grows in clusters, the flowers and leaves hold the stem like a bitter thorn and a difference, the teeth are not pointed, the stem is thin and unsplusive; the tip is hairy, and the autumn flowers are like a cold chrysanthemum". It can be seen that wild chrysanthemums also bloom in autumn, with forked hair at the tip of the tip and edible leaf tips.
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that wild chrysanthemums, also known as bitter coixes. In response to the nameless swelling poison, "mash the stems with wild chrysanthemums, fry them with wine, take hot clothes, let the sweat shine; and apply medicinal residue to the affected area."
mint
【Type 3】The mint in summer is very refreshing The mint ten coriander is difficult to distinguish
The third plant is peppermint.
Xu Guangqi's "Complete Book of Agricultural Politics" records that mint "a chicken Su, the old did not write the soil of the state, now everywhere, the stem is square, the leaves are like the leaves of the leaves, the small is quite slender, and like the leaves of coriander, and the large, open fine and broken white flowers."
The "Complete Book of Agricultural Politics" also records that "the seedlings and leaves are cooked, the water is soaked to remove the spicy taste, and the oil and salt are mixed." At that time, mint could also be used as a relief dish. However, the book also mentions that "new diseases do not eat people, people sweat more than once, cats eat is drunk, and things feel the ears", pointing out that individual people can not eat peppermint.
Wang Dongchao said that peppermint and ten coriander are more similar, and both are angiosperms peppermint plants. The leaves of mint are larger than those of coriander. On the top of the palate, mint has a cold feeling to eat, while coriander, as a vegetable, is fragrant and delicious.
mugwort
【Type 4】Mugwort can also be made as wild vegetables and motherwort is a bit similar
The fourth plant is mugwort. When it comes to Ai, it is easy to think of some customs of the Five Dragon Boat Festival in early May. Mugwort leaves are also edible. The "Four People's Moon Order" records that "March can be harvested", the third month of the lunar calendar, which is basically the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar.
The "Guangqun Fang Genealogy" records that "Ai, a medicinal herb, an ice platform, a mugwort, a yellow grass, everywhere", and the growth range of Mugwort is also relatively extensive.
motherwort
Meng Haoran wrote in a poem, "On the evening of the Lanting North, the smoke opens and curves the waterfront. Bathing silkworms meet concubines, and cai ai is worth the ghost.". The Chronicle of the Jingchu Chronicle records, "On the fifth day of May, Cai Ai thought that he was a man, and hung on the door to poison gas. According to the zongze word wendu, try to pick the ai on the fifth day of May when the chicken is not singing, and see that it seems to be taken by people." This involves some customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which had the effect of dispelling poisons at that time.
Wang Dongchao said that Ai and motherwort are somewhat similar, and they need to be distinguished when digging vegetables in the wild.
Gray cabbage
【Type 5】Although gray cabbage is delicious, it should not be eaten more or cause allergic inflammation
The fifth plant is gray cabbage. Gray ash is more common in the Zhengzhou area, especially on the sandy Gaogang. Gray ash is also known as quinoa, and the Han Feizi Wuyin mentions, "The King of Yao, Tianxiaya, Maozi Buqi, Picking Rafters, Eating Rice, And Soup of Quinoa", when gray ash was used as a spiced soup.
The "Spring and Autumn of the Lü Dynasty" records that "Confucius was poor between Chen Cai, and the quinoa soup was not poured, and he did not taste the grain for seven days." When Confucius was poor, he could not even drink the gray cabbage soup, which shows how appropriate the description of "noodles have vegetables".
The seedlings and young stems and leaves of the ash grass can be eaten, and the taste is delicious and tender. However, as mentioned earlier, gray cabbage is a photoreceptorical plant containing porphyrins, excessive consumption or contact, the human body is exposed to several hours of sun exposure, prone to acute phototoxic inflammatory reactions, resulting in redness, swelling, shininess, and itching of the mixed body.
Therefore, the amount of gray cabbage should not be too much at one time, and strong sun exposure should be avoided after eating.
Source: Dahe News Yu Video Editor: Wang Fenghua