Introduction: A kind of wild vegetable with its own cucumber flavor, once a life-saving food in the famine years, people who have eaten are old, have you eaten?
When it comes to wild vegetables, everyone is no stranger, and many people think that wild vegetables are just a patent of the past poor years. In the old days when they were often hungry, wild vegetables were their life-saving food, carrying the hardships of many people.
In recent years, wild vegetables have received more and more attention, believing that wild vegetables are "pollution-free vegetables, good medicine for disease prevention and treatment", which is highly sought after by many health care people.
With today's living conditions getting better and better, the requirements for food are getting higher and higher, to be green and healthy, but also to taste good, the most important thing is to have a certain health value.
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Like the more familiar wild vegetables are cabbage, maran head, mugwort, a little red, plantain, bracken, toon, thorny vegetables, dandelions, houttuynia, etc., which are the life-saving foods of the past poor years and have been handed down to this day.
The ground vegetable was also a life-saving food in the famine years, and if you grow it in the countryside, it is certainly not unfamiliar, because it is very common in the rural wild.
Why is it called a ground dish? Because its stem is born from the ground, the ancients named it the ground-attached dish. It also has a well-known nickname in the countryside called Chicken Intestines, because its stems grow thin and long, resembling chicken intestines.
It is an annual herb of the comfrey family, mostly in fields, roadsides, meadows, wastelands, gardens, etc., and is distributed in many parts of the continent.
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People who know the ground vegetable know that it has a cucumber flavor, so many people call it cucumber flavor. When I was young, I always liked to take it off and pat it with my hands, and then I would smell a clear smell of cucumber, which was particularly fun.
The young leaves of the ground vegetable are a very high-quality wild vegetable, and it was also a life-saving food in the famine years, which can be steamed or fried with eggs, and can also be used for cold mixing, filling, etc., the taste is fragrant and delicious, and its taste is also the best among many wild vegetables.
Ground vegetables not only taste second to none, but also its nutritional content is more abundant than planted vegetables, it is rich in protein, fiber, inorganic salts, calcium, iron, vitamins, carotene, etc., but also contains volatile oils, 21 kinds of fatty acids, 20 kinds of alcohols and other 74 kinds of nutrients, which is incomparable to many wild vegetables.
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At the same time, the ground vegetable also has a high medicinal value, its medicinal whole herb, with swelling and pain relief, qi and wind, detoxification effect, dysentery, phlegm wheezing, red swelling pain, stomach stagnant pain, numbness of hands and feet, hot toxic carbuncle, bruises and swelling pain and other diseases have a certain effect.
In addition, the stems of the ground-attached vegetable are many bushes, dense and scattered on the ground, resembling a lotus seat, and the leaves grow verdant and turquoise, especially like the spoons we eat, and the whole plant looks small and cute.
Moreover, its blossoms are also very special, it blooms light blue flowers, five petals for one, the center is goose yellow, has a good ornamental value, very suitable for planting potted plants, good and good-looking, friends who like to raise flowers do not miss.
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It can be said that the ground vegetable is not a general wild vegetable, its role is very much, it is both a dish and a medicine, but also can be potted, the taste is unique, with a cucumber flavor, is a rare folk wild vegetable, people who have eaten are old.
Friends, do you have this cucumber-scented ground dish in your hometown? It was a lifesaver for the famine years, and the people who ate it were old. If you can still meet it in your hometown, you can pick it and take it home, and it has many benefits at home, and the effect of medicine and food is good.