Recently, due to the situation of poisoning by eating blood skin vegetables, in the process of investigation, it was found that many poisoned patients are puzzled, eating blood skin vegetables for many years, how can they be poisoned? Let's take a look at why the "blood skin dish" is poisoned!
The blood skin vegetables (also known as purple back vegetables) that everyone eats daily are named Gynura bicolor in botany, which belongs to the genus Asteraceae, which is distributed in many places in our province, because of its good taste and high nutritional value, it is one of the wild vegetables that residents in our province like to eat. However, what is the reason for the frequent occurrence of poisoning due to the consumption of "blood skin vegetables" every year? After investigation, it was found that what was eaten in these poisoning incidents was not the real "blood skin dish", but the Chrysanthemum, which was similar in appearance to it and was difficult to distinguish!
Whole blood skin vegetable strain
Blood skin vegetable leaf 1
Blood skin vegetable leaf 2
Blood skin root
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Gynura japonica is also known as see swelling and bloody panax, and belongs to the genus Chrysanthemum, which belongs to the genus Chrysanthemum with blood skin vegetables. Chrysanthemum is a perennial herb, 60 to 150 cm tall, with an upright stem, clusters of basal leaves, serrated or pinnate divisions at the edges, dark green leaves, purple-green leaf back, and the leaf face and blood skin vegetables are very similar, and it is often difficult for non-professional researchers to accurately identify. Folk planting of Chrysanthemum 37 as a traditional Chinese medicine, its root or whole herb into the medicine, the function is to disperse stasis and stop bleeding, detoxification and swelling, fresh products are mainly used externally. If you accidentally eat the stems and leaves of Chrysanthemum, you will have gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and some will also have neuropsychiatric symptoms such as dizziness. When collecting "blood skin vegetables" in the wild, it should be carefully identified, and if it is impossible to accurately identify, it should not be collected and eaten; once the poisoning of mistakenly ingesting chrysanthemum, it should be timely to go to the hospital for treatment.
Chrysanthemum three seven roots
Chrysanthemum Sanshichi All Shares
Chrysanthemum 1
Chrysanthemum leaves 2
Chrysanthemum leaves 3
Chrysanthemum 37 leaves 4
(Picture from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Of the Institute of Occupational Health and Poison control He Qian, Anshun Ziyun County Disease Control and other disease control in the province in the treatment of Ju 37 poisoning incident)
Contributed by: Zhu Shu, Public Health Institute of the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Review: Guo Hua Zhou Yajuan
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