It is a very tender seasonal wild vegetable in spring and March, and it is very popular with the people. In the folk, march 3rd and Qingming have the custom of eating boiled eggs with cabbage, believing that they can not only make money but also prevent disease and fitness.
Cabbage - diuresis, hemostasis, clearing heat and eyesight, eliminating accumulation of food
According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "The cabbage can clear the liver and eyes, and the spleen is good for water",
Chinese medicine believes that the sweet taste of the cabbage is flat, into the stomach meridian, can reduce the stomach fire, but not bitter cold stomach; it into the small intestine meridian, can clear the small intestinal fire, treatment of urine is unfavorable; it into the spleen meridian, can be wet and healthy spleen.
The medicinal properties of cabbage are so peaceful that even small babies under the age of one can use it. If the baby has accumulated food, it can be well treated by boiling water with seeds and old cabbage, and it is not easy to get stomach problems when it grows up.
Elderly people eat cabbage is also very good, can lower blood pressure, to facilitate urination, but also to prevent cataracts.
For ordinary people, eating some cabbage in the spring is the best, which can prevent various epidemics and alleviate the allergy symptoms that are easy to appear in the spring.
It can also stop bleeding and has a certain effect on various hemorrhagic disorders. People who love nosebleeds, or who often bleed gums, can usually eat more cabbage.
It is found all year round in the south. If you eat vegetables, you can pick them at any time. However, if it is medicated, it belongs to the best medicinal properties of the cabbage grown in the beginning of the third month of the lunar calendar. Because the early spring weather is still relatively cold and grows slowly, it has the highest medicinal value. Later, it will grow faster and its medicinal value will decline
Purslane - five elements of full occupation, heat and detoxification, water to dampness, blood dissipation and swelling
Purslane is found everywhere throughout the country, the leaves are small and round, the stem is red and round, the flesh is thick, and the small yellow flowers bloom in the summer, which are easy to recognize. Fresh purslane is crisp and tender, smooth and slightly sour to taste like amaranth.
As a vegetable, purslane does not taste particularly good, but its medical health value is quite high. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is recorded that purslane, also known as five elements of grass, is cold in nature and sweet in taste; into the heart, liver, spleen, and large intestine meridian. Efficacy of clearing heat and detoxification, water dehumidification, blood dispersion and swelling, dust and sterilization, anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving, hemostasis and cool blood.
Indications: dysentery, enteritis, nephritis, postpartum uterine bleeding, blood in the stool, mastitis and other diseases.
In addition to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", the Materia Medica of the past generations has recorded the magical wild vegetable of purslane: "Purslane, its leaves are green, the stems are red, the flowers are yellow, the roots are white, and the seeds are black." With the merits of natural creation, the five elements are all occupied. "Therefore, its role cannot be underestimated."
Its roots are white, so it can reduce lung heat, its stem is red, and it can unclog the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems. Its leaves are green, it can clear the liver fire, so that the liver pressure is reduced, its flowers are yellow, can remove all the damp heat in the intestine, its seeds are black, it actually has a little bit of kidney tonic, can improve fertility, can enhance the effect of kidney function.
Therefore, red, yellow, green, white and black, the five colors are sufficient, and the five colors correspond to the five viscera, so it is also called the five elements of the dish. Five colors can be reflected in it, so it creates the unique effect of purslane.
Remind friends: purslane is cold and slippery. At the beginning, you must eat a small amount, and gradually adapt to eat more.
There are three types of people to avoid eating purslane:
1. People who have diarrhea caused by a cold in the abdomen;
2. Pregnant women. Purslane is slippery and has the effect of a slippery tire;
Third, if you are eating Chinese medicine, there is turtle nail in the prescription, pay attention to purslane and turtle nails, do not take together.
Bitter vegetables - natural bactericidal and anti-inflammatory drugs in wild vegetables
"On March 23, the bitter vegetables drilled upwards." This is a folk proverb that spreads in Bohai Bay, Shandong. Legend has it that our lady once made a tour of the people and found that the most bitter season for the people was not in the cold winter, but in the spring. There are many people who do not have enough to eat, and life is very difficult. Selling children and selling women happens from time to time. Our Lady thought to herself: If there are wild vegetables that are connected to the harvest, people will not sell their children or starve to death. Thinking of this, the long sleeves were thrown away, and the bitter vegetables were all over the place, slowly drilling out of the dirt. This is the twenty-third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, and it also happens to be the birthday of the Virgin Mary. People rush to the fields, dig up wild vegetables, and stew with a small amount of cornmeal or bran and the like, and stew with wild vegetables, although it is not delicious, but it can be eaten. When the ship is pushed into the sea, there are wild vegetables on the shore to fill the hunger, and the most difficult sun and moon of the year will pass.
Although the story is fictional, it is not difficult for us to feel that in the difficult years, bitter vegetables have indeed solved the problem of some people's stomachs.
If in the past, people ate bitter vegetables to survive, then now they eat bitter vegetables more because of its nutritional and health value. Medical books such as the Compendium of Materia Medica, the Shennong Materia Medica, and the Qianjin Yifang all have different notes and uses for bitter vegetables. Bitter and good vegetables are good for the body, which can not only clear heat and detoxification, but also cool blood and dampness.
In addition to the stems and leaves can be eaten, in fact, all the body is a treasure, Chinese medicine believes that bitter vegetables taste bitter, cold. Bitter cabbage root into the bladder meridian, has the effect of dispersing stasis and stopping bleeding, clearing heat and detoxification; bitter cauliflower has a sweet taste, which can dispel medium heat and reassure the gods; and bitter rapeseed can treat jaundice.
Bitter vegetable is a kind of non-toxic wild plant with medicinal edible and edible, detoxification, stasis and pain relief, and has a certain curative effect on dysentery, cold fever and chronic tracheitis, tonsillitis, etc. The decoction of bitter vegetables has a significant inhibitory effect on the blood cell deoxygenase of patients with acute lymphopathic leukemia acute and chronic myelogenous leukemia, and can also be used to prevent cervical cancer, rectal cancer, and cancer.
It should be noted that because the bitter vegetable taste is bitter and cold, it is not suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency.
Locust flower - lowers blood pressure, lowers blood lipids, and can also anti-aging
In May, the acacia flowers are like snow, the fragrance is fragrant, and the sweetness is intoxicating! In the middle of the May 1 holiday, you may wish to go to the wild farmhouse to see the locust flowers: when the locust flowers are waiting to be released, a bunch, a bunch, a cluster, hidden in a piece of tender green, people can't help but pick a bunch, hold it in the palm of your hand, and hold it in your mouth.
Locust flowers are also known as locust rice. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "the locust flower tastes bitter, the sex is slightly cold, and it belongs to the liver and the large intestine meridian." It has the effect of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, clearing heat, yangming, yin blood and medicine. "Indications for the treatment of vomiting blood, blood in the blood, blood in the urine, blood in the stool, hemorrhoids, collapse and leakage, wind and heat, carbuncle sore poison." In many parts of the mainland, there is a habit of eating locust flowers,
Chinese medicine believes that locust flower is a medicinal food homologous food, locust flower tea has the effect of lowering blood pressure and lowering blood lipids, and is a medicinal tea suitable for patients with hypertension and hyperlipidemia to drink.
Modern pharmacological studies have shown that locust flowers contain a variety of medicinal ingredients such as ruevoside, quercetin, quercetin and so on. Quercetin dilates coronary blood vessels, improves myocardial circulation, and has a lipid-lowering effect.
The antioxidant effect of selenium in locust flower buds is 300 to 500 times that of vitamin C and vitamin E, and has anti-aging effects. Locust flowers are added to goji berries to make tea, which reduces blood pressure and lipids, and has a better health care effect.
It should be noted that those who have a cold spleen and stomach and a lack of yin deficiency and fever without real fire should take it with caution.
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